Here's a ridiculous item of the day. An ultra-liberal organization calling itself Truthout reported over a week ago that Karl Rove would be indicted a couple of weekends ago for the CIA leak, and was being given 24 hours to get his affairs in order. The problem was that the story was false. When called to task on the veracity of the reporting, the organization's director merely claimed that he had gotten "too far ahead of the news cycle." Translation: it hasn't happened yet, but trust me, it will, because I want it to be true.

So much for journalistic integrity. It's one thing to opine about a news item in an op-ed piece, but quite another to completely make something up, report it as hard fact, and defend yourself by saying that the piece wasn't wrong--the "facts" cited just haven't happened yet is beyond the pale. Well, dude, we're still waiting. How much time do you want us to give you to make your fantasy come true?

This is the sort of nonsense that happens when someone has such tunnel vision that he makes up wild accusations in some sort of twisted sense of reality. We all know people like this. They make it a habit to form an opinion of someone or something, and let the facts be damned. Or better yet, force fit them into their vision of reality. Like Hillary Clinton's non-existant "vast right wing conspiracy" against her perpetually philandering husband. Like people who hurl accusations about Condoleezza Rice lying to them about intelligence saying Iraq had nukes, yet are the same people who believed John Kerry when he said the same thing during his failed flip-flopping campaign for president.

Whatever happened to looking at both sides of an argument and forming an intelligent, rational point of view? Hillary spoke at my graduation when I got my master's degree 10 years ago. Nobody booed her, even though I heard a lot of grumbling from students after the ceremony that her speech was nothing but an extended plug for her book "It Takes a Village."