From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article , Bill Swears   wrote:   
   >On 1/15/2015 6:47 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >   
   >>>   
   >> Well, Bill, you too appear to have to led a cloistered life.   
   >> Don't worry about it.   
   >>   
   >> Don't worry about your daughter, either; she appears to have a   
   >> solid head on her shoulders.   
   >>   
   >One of us should have some common sense. I hope it is her, cause it's   
   >too late for me! :-)  I'm really not sure whether I've been sheltered,   
   >or just run around making decisions without learning the details.  I've   
   >become a lot more anal about that in recent years, but am still   
   >occasionally surprised about the things that I've known for years that   
   >turn out not to be true.   
   >   
   >And I know that amongst my peer group in mundanity, I'm one of the more   
   >considered.  Amazing what people will pick up from a talking-head or   
   >political action group and run with as gospel.   
   >   
   Well, _mundus vult decepi_.  People believe what they want to   
   believe.  Hal and I were in the supermarket yesterday and   
   glancing at the covers of all the scandal magazines kept by the   
   checkout lanes, and quoted Michael Flanders: "They make it up,   
   you know."*  I said, "They want to believe they can find out   
   things other people don't know about people they mistakenly   
   consider important."   
      
   ____   
   *Flanders went on to say something on the order of "If there's a   
   Bank Holiday or a newspaper strike, *nothing happens.*  It's   
   wonderful."   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
   Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.   
   Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)