I was minding my business, mind you, surfing the Internet to check out the news and political sites and forums I customarily visit, and these news and column headlines, most from last week, some from a bit earlier and a few from this week, bombarded me. I wasn't looking for trouble. Nor was the satirical website The Onion one of the sites I visited. The world is upside down, inside out, sideways, crazy, nutso. Bad is good; up is down. Left is right; right is wrong. Evil is good; insanity is sanity. Abnormal is normal. Circles are squares. Hot is cold. Luke warm is red hot -- among Republicans, anyway. Common sense is uncommon. The world is otherworldly. Dissent is "hate." Diversity means conformity. The good guys are the bad guys; virtue is vice; sophistry is intellectualism; jerks are celebrated; debauchery is glorified; the holy is debauched. Let me share some of these headlines, which speak for themselves -- loudly and depressingly.
--Shakespeare's Works -- Too Hard, Too White.
--Obama Red-Faced: Iran Nuclear Stockpiles Grew 20 Percent in 18 months.
--Obamacare Dangerous to Our Health.
--Eye-Popping Premium Increases.
--Obama, Clinton Want To Enforce 'Correct' Thinking in America.
--High School Denies Pro-Life Club!
--Pentagon Officials Call Out Obama's 'Pathetic' ISIS Strategy.
--Shabazz Calls on Nation of Islam, New Black Panther 'Army' to Defend Black Communities Against Police Brutality.
--Obama: Climate Change Deniers Endangering National Security.
--Team Clinton Swarms Sunday Interview Shows, Minus Hillary.
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--Antonin Scalia Is Unfit To Serve: A Justice Who Rejects Science and the Law for Religion Is of Unsound Mind.
--In L.A., Obama addresses Washington's Dysfunction: "I Did Not Say I Would Fix It."
--Authorities: Gay Slur Carved Into Utah Man's Arm Was Staged.
--Justice Department: Transgender Students Can Use Bathrooms that Match Their Gender Identity.
--Political Correctness 101: Praising America, Virtues of Hard Work Dubbed 'Micro-Aggression' On Campuses.
--Video Shows U.S. Citizens Willing To Ban American Flag.
--Are Americans of Faith in Danger?
--Obama Administration Says Redskins Nickname Could Block Potential Stadium Deal.
--TV Land Drops "Dukes of Hazzard" Amid Confederate Flag Controversy.
--Gay Teacher Files Federal Discrimination Lawsuit Against Catholic School.
--Terrific: Attorney in Charge of Releasing Lois Lerner 'Lost' Emails Now in Charge of HRC's Emails.
--For Obama, Rainbow White House Was 'A Moment Worth Savoring.'
--Montana Polygamist Family Applies for Marriage License.
--74 Children Executed by ISIS for 'Crimes' That Include Refusal To Fast, Report Says.
--New Undercover Footage Shows VA Officials Admitting of 'Unaccountability at Every Level.'
--Black Teacher Hits Handicapped White Child, Tells Him Black People Fought To Not 'Serve White People Like You.'
--Girl Scouts Raise $250K for Transgender Cause.
--Teen Leads Mob in Ransacking of Georgia Walmart.
--U.S. Debt Headed Toward Greek Levels.
--Obama Administration Invokes Executive Privilege on Benghazi Probe?
--United Church of Christ Anti-Israel Extremism.
--U.S. Troops in Afghanistan 'Feel Abandoned.'
--More than 42 Million Muslims 'Support ISIS.'
--17 Shot Since Monday Morning in Baltimore.
--Baltimore Mayor Wants Park Named for Robert E. Lee Changed, Other Monuments May Come Down.
--Christian Preachers Brutally Beaten at Gay Pride Festival.
--Seattle 6th Graders Can't Get a Coke at School, but Can Get an IUD.
--Local Minister Urges the Flying of Black Liberation Flag This Weekend.
--Christian Bakers Face $135K Fine and Gag Order Over Wedding Cake for Same-Sex Couple.
--Center for American Progress Helped Craft EPA Talking Points, Emails Show.
--White House Blames GOP for Kathryn Steimle's Slaying, Rise in Gun Violence.
--10 Killed, 55 Wounded in Fourth of July Gun Violence in Chicago.
--Shock: Arizona Paper Decries Border Fence As Too High For Mexicans To Safely Jump.
--California Family Supports 4-Year-Old's Decision To Transition from Male to Female.
--Illegal Alien Who Murdered Woman Went to San Francisco Because It Was a 'Sanctuary City.'
--Chris Matthews: Hillary Clinton is 'More of a Conservative ... Traditional Politician.'
--Netanyahu Says Nuke Deal Getting Worse by the Day.
--Chicago Convulsed By Another Violent Weekend; Top Cop Blames Justice System.
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