Check and Double-Check

Over in the right-hand margin of this page — if you read it on a full-screen desktop computer — you will probably find a column of links which look like ads. On a smaller screen, they might wind up anywhere but they should be somewhere there. And they are ads, I guess, though I don't charge anyone when I place one there, nor do I place them because someone asks. You'll see links to comic conventions and friends and places where you can spend money that might trickle my way…and I've just added a few new ones.

I just put up three links to fact-checking websites — The Washington Post, Politifact and FactCheck.org. I have found these three to be generally accurate in correcting public figures who are sometimes not accurate. Some of those public figures are spectacularly not accurate and some of them, I feel, don't even try to be. They just say whatever advances their campaigns for money and/or power and try to get you to trust them over sources that don't lie or spin their way.

It is always good to not trust any news source blindly. These next four years would be an especially good time to do this. You may even find out on occasion that the people you see as being on your side are, intentionally or not, not giving you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.