The terminology is clever! I missed the Leno show. I'm actually trying to stay away from the media for awhile. I've been having bad dreams about everything going on - as bad as the dreams that came on after 9/11. Maybe being alone for the past several weeks is doing me in but I've resolved this weekend to keep my eyes and ears shut to "news". I'll play music to keep me company and read a bunch of fiction. seagrass

The Tea Dance - Elaine Constantine (Kath perhaps we should start a new 'Game' each month otherwise this one will just go on and on . . . and . . . . on . . . . )

Here's an article on best practices for assessing the veracity of news & the sites that promulgate it in our digitally connected age. I realized I've come to use most of these same techniques too, over the years: https://medium.com/@holden/how-media-literacy-gets-web-misinformation-wrong-45aa6323829d "How “News Literacy” Gets Web Misinformation Wrong I have a simple web literacy model. When confronted with a dubious claim: Check for previous fact-checking work Go upstream to the source Read laterally That’s it. There’s a couple admonitions in there to check your emotions and think recursively, but these three things — check previous work, go upstream, read laterally — are the core process. We call these things moves. They are generally usable intermediate goals for the fact-checker, often executed in sequence: if one stops panning out, then you go onto the next one. The reason we present these in sequence in this way is we don’t just want to get students to the truth — we want to get them there as quickly as possible. The three-step process comes from the experience of seeing both myself and others get pulled into a lot of wasteful work — fact-checking claims that have already been extensively fact-checked, investigating meaningless intermediate sources, and wasting time analyzing things from a site that later turns out to be a known hoax site or conspiracy theory site..." And 1 of the first things I check these days is the dateline on an article. I see so much stuff that gets circulated as if new, when it's from years ago. FWIW, HTH

Make your Home Among Strangers -- Jennine Capó Crucet (Bon - I wish Houzz had a selection of emoji buttons, something more than just a thumbs up, because I need a LOL for your husband's driving directions.)