In the evenings these days I ride my exercise bike faster and faster as I listen to my cable news pundits deliver a flood of chaotic information coming from our nation’s center and around the world. I ride and ride, and as I push the pedals faster and faster I feel I’m just trying to get to the end of the news program faster it seems! Why do this, you might ask? Why subject yourself to the torrent of unpleasant, deeply disturbing news that makes your heart hurt? I’m doing it because there’s a compulsion in me dating back to my solitary child life amongst oblivious alcoholics to learn the truth of things.
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