Duped

 Well, here it is Wednesday, that last day of my first weekend this week.  I have the same schedule for next week: work a day, have 2 days off, work a day, and have 2 days off.  I have no problem working 20 hours a week.  

Yesterday was an on and off, drizzly, overcast, sometimes nappy day.  A number of loads of laundry were washed and dried, dishes were washed, and some writing was done before I settled down to watch movies.  First up was The Phantom Menace, the 1st film in the Star Wars timeline.  I'd seen it a long time ago.  It raised a lot of eyebrows when it was first released, mainly because of a CGI character named Jar Jar Biggs (sp).  I didn't like him in 1999 and still don't.  23 years after first seeing it in a theater, my opinion hasn't changed much, the movie is terrible, with all of the actors sleepwalking through dialogue written for an 8-year-olds maturity level.  After checking the Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores, I see I'm no alone with it barely earning a a 50% approval rating.

There have been a number of articles and opinions coming out regarding percentages of the Republican party believing this, or that, all of them implying that the GOP is much larger than it truly is.  So, when Newsweek says that 44% of Republicans believe school shootings are something we need to accept, don't believe it.  As I've said before, Newsweek is conservative making their newsworthiness unreliable, add to that polling, in itself, is questionable at best.  And Newsweek is not alone.  Every news outlet wants a headline that grabs your attention, and nothing grabs like that % sign.  For a society that is supposed to be intelligent, so many are duped far too often.