The Things We Know That Just Ain’t So

Perhaps, along with loyal opponent MSetty, you have wondered why the Antiplanner hasn’t pontificated about a certain former vice-president getting a Nobel Prize. Beyond the fact that the blogosphere is already overburdened with commentary on this subject, the Antiplanner has always had a policy of saying little about subjects about which he knows little.

“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so,” said early American humorist Artemus Ward. Or maybe it was Josh Billings who said, “You’d better not know so much, than know so many things that ain’t so.” I haven’t been able to verify the true source, but isn’t that really the point? If you don’t know, it is better not to say you do.

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