More on the Truth

Years ago I wrote an article for the Washington Post Style section about how I was afraid that people were stealing ideas from my head. For a while, all I had to do was think of something to write about and in a matter of days, it seemed, it would appear in print ... written by someone else of course.

So imagine my surprise, when I finally got around to putting this blog up and posting on my disappointment in Greg Mortenson and Lance Armstrong, that I would get a copy of Outside magazine with a huge expose on Lance's LiveStrong (laced with ample disappointment for Mortenson, too). It was happening all over again.

Obviously, I've been humbled again by the fact I am not the unique thinker I like to think I am (and I'm sure many other people think so, too). The best I can do is get them out of my head quicker and committed to 'paper' before they get stolen again.

Meanwhile, there is a local political race that is stretching the boundaries of truth, with a candidate neglecting to pay her taxes a few years back, then expressing shock --SHOCK! I tell ya!--when she learned there's an IRS lien against her. Again, I don't know if she did or didn't pay them, but it strains every sense of reason that she knew nothing about this. She must have the worst luck in the world given that neighboring jurisdictions PG County and Washington, DC have been plagued by having elected officials profess ignorance when confronted by charges of wrong doing. And we know how those stories ended.

Let's move on.

Photo: Truth by lizmcdaniel.