Hoodwinked.....

Recently I read Jack Cashill's book, Hoodwinked. It's a fascinating read.

Is something true, just because a speaker says it's true? Or because a writer says it's true? Don't you just have to love the person who says, "... and this is the truth"? The question in my mind is always, "And so, what about everything else you've been telling me?"

What about Sarah Palin and her Paul Revere story? Is she right? Could she be right? Obviously, it makes a better story the way we all learned it - that Paul Revere rode through the countryside to alert townspeople that the British were on the way. Where Palin get her version?

A little closer to home, the sheriff of McHenry County tells us that there is no racial profiling here. I haven't read the 350+ pages of it (yet), but I'm hearing that the numbers in it don't necessary indicate that there was no profiling.

And, of course, you might tell that to the Hispanic drivers who got stopped on U.S. 12 outside of Richmond on July 13, 2008, after Luna's big party where liquor was sold - without a license, so I've heard, and without any attention from the sheriff's department, even though they knew liquor was being sold without a license.

I'm working on getting a copy, which the Department could easily put on a disk and charge me a quarter for. But they'd like to see $0.15/page for 350 (or more) pages, and they won't see that from me. Which doesn't give them a free pass from me.

Maybe somebody will email me a scanned copy...