Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein


 Especially now that we have the internet and instant TV news, getting information is easy. Often we get so many different facts and opinions that the real task is to pick out the few pieces of information that are both true and important for making our decisions. We need to use our common sense to screen the ideas that come flooding in.
Particularly with Social Media posting of hyped up headlines overstating unsubstantiated claims.  Despite judicial reminders to "strike that last question" our minds don't un-remember what we have just seen or heard.