In my mind I have a category of “useless questions” and I tend to fill it up, if not during the day then during the week. There are two wide sub-categories: the question to which nobody knows or has a clue about the answer and the question which can be answered but there is no point in knowing that answer. The first sub-category I call an eternal mystery question and the second, an utter waste of time question.
For example, consider the following: What does a pug eat in the wild? Pug owners will immediately recognize this as an utter waste of time question. “Pugs in the wild” is itself a phrase conjuring up such a radical theoretical that further discussion is indeed a waste of time.
You get the point.
So, to today’s news.
On FoxNews.com there was an interview from last night’s “The Kelly File.” The interview was between anchor Megyn Kelly and, wait for it, Anthony Weiner. It featured his views on Obamacare. I hesitate to provide a link, in case you click on it, but in the interests of thoroughness and integrity here it is.
Some questions:
- Who is asking what Weiner thinks about Obamacare?
- Who cares what he thinks about Obamacare?
- Who cares what he thinks about anything?
- Who cares if he thinks?
The entire Kelly interview was illustrative of another descent into an utter waste of time question.
As for the first sub-category. Did you read or hear the President’s speech about the NSA scandal? It was so artfully crafted (under the over-arching umbrella, which has become his modus operandi, that nobody had told him how far-reaching it was) that it was impossible to deduce what going forward is actually going to be different vis-à-vis the continuance of the NSA’s spying on American citizens going about their lawful lives. The question about policies in this speech on limitations or abandonment of this manifestation of a police state in the contemporary USA falls into the first sub-category.
It’s not all about pugs in the wild.
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