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mathhobbitOn occasion I overhear other peoples' conversations. Recently I've noticed that the "facts" reported in these conversations sometimes differ greatly from my understanding of the truth.
For example, a teenage boy told a friend of his that Sara Palin received money to build a bridge that literally went nowhere, then insinuated that her husband had used that money to start a business.
More alarmingly, one faculty member told another the name of the colleague who left two students in a foreign airport when returning from an overseas trip, then said that the students' passports and money had been stolen at the airport. All the reports I've seen on the incident specified that the passports had been lost much earlier and replaced with temporary passports (which apparently weren't quite good enough.) Also, those reports did not name the faculty member.
I can forgive the teenage boys; I wonder how much of what *I* know about political candidates is true. The second incident shocks and upsets me.
For example, a teenage boy told a friend of his that Sara Palin received money to build a bridge that literally went nowhere, then insinuated that her husband had used that money to start a business.
More alarmingly, one faculty member told another the name of the colleague who left two students in a foreign airport when returning from an overseas trip, then said that the students' passports and money had been stolen at the airport. All the reports I've seen on the incident specified that the passports had been lost much earlier and replaced with temporary passports (which apparently weren't quite good enough.) Also, those reports did not name the faculty member.
I can forgive the teenage boys; I wonder how much of what *I* know about political candidates is true. The second incident shocks and upsets me.
