Today is St. Patrick’s Day and it’s the custom of the English to believe only half the lies the Irish tell us on this auspicious day. So here is my offering. “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!.” My mother had the bluest of the blue Irish eyes. And so do I, though they’re hard to see through Coke bottle lenses. Take that into account when you read this.

Maybe it’s the right day to do some serious dot connecting, since right wing radio and TV doesn’t allow any inconvenient truths into their largely fictitious messaging.

This is an actual letter sent to a bank manager by an 86 year old woman. The bank manager was condescending enough to consider it amusing and sent it to the New York Times. It’s a very good reality check on what Americans have got so used to putting up with that they regard the impertinence of the bureaucrats as acceptable behavior. The 86 year old lady hits several nails on their heads.

Dear Sir,

This happened in March not today on April 1st. But this seems the best day to report it.

There are many naïve people who really believe that government health services and institutions do actually work for the benefit of the public, as their names would indicate.