also, I don't often read the news, and if I do I don't make this publicly known. it is my observation that everything in the news is made up and manipulative, every single day, every single story, no reference to any particular story or to anything that may be in the news today. if I wanted to say anything about anything that's in the news, I would specify this. and it would have to be pretty important, because it seems our self-proclaimed democracy cracks down on me whenever I do that.