Happy Wear Green and March in the Street Day. I'm still dealing with that deadline but I just can't quit you folks for long.
I'm not looking at a lot of political stuff lately. I kinda peek every so often just to make sure Trump isn't still in office but that's about it. When I do plunge in, I always stop by a couple of fact-checking sites, mainly Politifact, FactCheck.org and Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post.
Every so often, I think they come down on the wrong side of whether a false statement is bad phrasing or stupidity, as opposed to a lie…but I find them to be pretty darned accurate, way ahead of any news source I could follow. And it isn't just that they say something is true or false as that they back it up with sources and links and other info that allows me to fact-check the fact-checkers.
Our political discourse in this country would not be the perpetually-wrecking train that it is if more people went to these sites and were open to saying, "Hmm…maybe I'm wrong about that…" I'm not saying you should believe every word they say but if a couple of seemingly-intelligent people tell you you're drunk, it's not a bad idea to try walking a straight line and see if maybe they know something you don't.