THERE IS PLENTY IN THE WAY OF BAD NEWS out there today...but that seems to be what draws the reporting. I'm trying to balance that with some of the better stuff that is harder to find.

Still, I found this story about circulating rumors to be interesting. Sort of goes along with our theme of these folks being fed lie after lie after lie. Rumors will happen in the best of times...and in these times it seems rumors are a form of lying to one's self...especially if you can blame someone else in the process.

Doctors treating a dangerous spike in cholera and other intestinal diseases say they are told by patients that they are victims of an American virus, unleashed so people will be grateful when the Americans heal them...

..."The Israelis told the Americans to get rid of our government and then take our oil," said a man parked in an impromptu gas line. "I heard that on the radio."

Said another motorist in a battered Toyota Corolla, "It's the fault of Kuwait. They sent the American soldiers in here to steal and to loot, and then the Americans are repaying them with our gasoline."

Wait a minute...the American soldiers steal and loot??? Sheesh.