A brief post before I leave for the surgical center

This morning I got an email asking me to sign a petition that would be forwarded to the White House. It claimed that last week the Senate passed legislation giving Social Security to illegal aliens. Of course, I know that's not true because I actually pay attention to what the Senate does, checking the website, watching C-SPAN, etc. I was able to prove it to be false by going to Snopes.

But what really amazed me is how far it went.

That petition had 858 names on it.

It went through 858 people before someone (me) bothered to take something that made no logical sense and run it through a bullshit detector. In the words of Julius Caesar, "Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true."