Media & Trump BS Filters Vital

Sorting out facts from alternate realities in the age of free-for-all media chaos has become a challenge.

Ernest Hemingway, when asked what makes a good writer, replied that “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar & all great writers have had it.”

I was a shy, withdrawn, socially awkward, fearful little kid almost beaten into submission by parents, schools, bullies, & the repressive ethnic community in which I…