The LA Times this morning managed to irritate me before I was halfway through my cereal. The front page of the Calendar section reads:
A HOST OF QUESTIONS
Will Colbert's truthiness survive the "Late Show" switch?
TRUTHINESS? What are these people playing at? I looked it up and discovered that it is a word "invented" by comedian Stephen Colbert himself.
I didn't think there would be a definition, but there is and it's this:
Truthiness is a quality assigned to a person claiming an argument is right based on a gut feeling and has nothing to do with logic, evidence or intellectual examination or facts.
That sounds about right for a politician.
While we're still telling the truth, this is a vastly irritating word and Richie used to use it all the time. That word is "truism" and is defined as: A claim that is so obvious or self-evident as to be not worth mentioning.
In my world (and it's a small one) something is true or not true. Period. "Oh, it's true because I feel like it is" has no place in thought or rational discussion. You can say, "I think" or "I feel" but you can't assert something without having proof.
Friday, April 11, 2014
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