What most interests me ...

... is when things aren't as public opinion seems to think they are.

That's why I can seem like a contrarian horse's ass at times.

 

Oh no, Dick's home from the bar!

 

I thought it was Italian food.

 

Huh, I thought YOU were the super spy.

 

Ha, no. Just thinking about the endless Jon Lester discussion.

I'm always the guy saying, "The obvious thing isn't true!"

I think a lot of obvious things are true, for the record. But what's interesting about those?

 

My life on the politics board.

 

HOF

 

Actually the same reason why my philosophy that pretty much everything has grey areas rubs some the wrong way. They want to scream for one side or the other, but don't get in the middle.

And it's why it's bothersome to hear, "No, there's no budging here. This is completely right." 95 percent of the time, that's bullshit. Most everything has some right and some wrong.

 

Yeah, you can be an ass about it sometimes, but in general it's good that things are questioned from time to time.

I was rewatching Game of Thrones and got to the episode with the play depicting King Robert's death. The facts were all basically correct, but every character's motivation and temperament was wrong.

It makes me wonder how many things we know about history are true, but not really true.

 

I'll bet you're fun around millennials.

Seriously, people are easier to manipulate into "obvious but wrong" conclusions than ever.

 

I shudder to think.

You could have had, say, that day's version of Rush Limbaugh chronicling Genghis Kahn's exploits, or what Emperor Tiberius was doing in Rome. Maybe Nero was working his butt off, but one of the "Never Neros" just wrote that he was fiddling about, fiddling about, fiddling about.

 

Or maybe, you know ... the Bible?
How much did those stories change or get embellished as they were handed down?