Whataboutism, red herrings, ad hominem attacks and other logical fallacies were alive in the comments that followed my column about recent shootings last week, as well as the attitude that s kept anything from getting done: Criminals won t follow the law, so why punish citizens who do?
Friday night, about the time I was settling into bed at a friend s house after having enjoyed a night out at Argenta Community Theater s production of "Cinderella" (where another friend was playing the stepmother), five people, including a boy who d only recently turned 9, were being killed in Cleveland, Texas, north of Houston.
I could probably easily write about the departures of Tucker Carlson from Fox News and Don Lemon from CNN. However, I don t have cable, and even if I did, I wouldn t watch the cable "news" networks found there. For news, it s always been the newspaper and/or local news stations.