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In Act I of Oscar Wilde’s comedy The Importance of being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Algernon Moncrief says to his friend Jack “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

I think that’s a perceptive comment, and pointing out the truth’s lack of both purity and simplicity is the raison d’etre of this blog. However, Algernon also notes in his next sentence that “Modern life would be very tedious if it were either….”, and the avoidance of tedium is another goal here. The world is really interesting if you look at it carefully – which is not to say that it is always understandable. I expect that’s part of what makes it interesting.

So, commentary on and analysis of what we all read/see each day from the media, universities, governments and other sources high and low is what you will get here, informed by my 42-year career as a trained skeptic. Maybe we’ll all learn something, or at least find ourselves saying, on occasion – ‘Hah! Hadn’t thought of that’.

Al Slivinski