The U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to do something to Roe v. Wade. There are a lot of different opinions out there about what this will mean for a woman's right to choose abortion…so many opinions that a couple of them have to be right. But that also means a lot of them won't turn out to be right. I feel I should remind you that lately, every time SCOTUS Watchers predict what the highest court in the land is going to do, some pretty firm opinions turn out to be wrong.
So it may be as bad as some predict but I think I'll wait until the opinion is (a) known and (b) fully understood before I get upset or mad or relieved or whatever the proper response may be.
The same is true of the buzz about the COVID variant, Omicron. There's an awful lot of panic out there and not a whole lot of hard information.
You know, it's nice in a way to be able to get 24/7 news on our TV sets and our computers whenever we want it but it does have its downsides. It's been a while here since I've quoted the late journalist Jack Germond but it helps to remember when he said, "The problem is that we aren't paid to say 'I don't know' so we have to say something even when we don't know."