Since it gets bandied about in our civil and often less than civil discourse with one another and repeatedly invoked in our mass media of choice and choosing, here's something worth chewing on, the definition of truth according to Merriam-Webster.
I am especially taken with the turn of phrase, 'the things that are true.'
If you think I'm raining on your 'the vaccine activates the 5G nano-trackers in your blood so JFK Jr. can find you faster' or 'the November 2020 election was as crooked as the veracity-impaired now-former president insists' or in particular, 'waves of unvaccinated caravans of illegals are streaming across our southern borders to take our jobs,' then yeah, you probably need to put a raincoat on and do up those galoshes. After all, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Somewhere at some point truth went from being an integral and essential part of our national dialogue to roadkill on the human highway. A fashion accessory sold only at the finest stores and for a limited time only.
If we've learned nothing since the start of this century it should be that such a notion is bullshit.
-bill kenny
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