Throwing Pasta on the Wall,
That don't bother me at all...
Like most people, I'm impatient for news about the next disaster Trump leads himself into. I can hardly wait to learn what new stupidity he has gotten up to. These days, through, it can be hard to tell the actual news from another phenomenon that is sweeping the Internet. As impatience grows to be rid of Trump and his toadies, a number of clever people who have the ability to write grammatical sentences and use vocabulary pertinent to politics and international affairs have set up shop on the Internet.
Working tirelessly on Twitter and miscellaneous blogs, they're providing the red meat people are looking for. You can find all the "latest news" on the Trump/Russia scandal at their Twitter feeds and blogs. They're weaving exciting tales that relate, in some way, to the news we're all looking for about the final straw that breaks Trumps back.
And, almost universally, that information is false. It's a construct of the internal thinking of those who are posting this stuff. They put random stuff together, gleaned from both the news and other random blogs and twitter feeds and come up with shocking information that helps people satisfy their need for negative Trumpery.
These sources are full of secrets, sources that can't be named and fanciful speculations written as if they were actually true. The "Big Story" comes out and gets people all excited and then they move on to the next "Big Story." In the meantime, yesterday's and a week ago's "Big News" somehow never makes it into mainstream news outlets.
That's because it's bullshit. Once in a while one of the speculations these people write actually ends up being correct. And that, of course, means that people think everything they write is correct. In our eagerness to find the dirt on Trump and his minions, we're all too ready to accept whatever pasta these folks throw on the wall to see if any of it sticks.
Is the pasta ready? Well, throwing it against the wall is the wrong way to find out. Instead, put your fork in the boiling water and fish out a piece. Let it cool for a few seconds and then bite into it. Is it ready? Is it how you like it? Then, it's time to drain it and sauce it and enjoy your meal. The pasta on the wall? Well, you can clean that up later, but it won't tell you if it's ready. That's the wrong way to test pasta. Try eating it. That's why you're boiling it in the first place, right?
Here's the thing: Every major news outlet has teams of people trying to get the jump on the other news outlets. They'll break the real stories as soon as they are corroborated and confirmed. They're in a hurry to do that, too. Wait. Watch. Eat your news fully cooked and sauced. It's better than the pasta stuck to that wall.
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The first time I had ever heard of doing something like that was during the "Honey Boo Boo" craze and I finally broke down and watched part of a youtube clip of one of the episodes... And that episode showed them doing that. 
