Steve: I have long considered you thin-skinned. It is okay but it weakens your positions, when you make them.

I agree that this occasion does not necessarily betoken going nuclear. But I think the issue raised its head under existing comments and I thought I was bringing some relatively realistic philosophy to the issue.

As to what you mean by 'news' you need to be more specific. But I'll say right now that I might not be believing things marketed as 'news'. In particular if you want to talk about competing dead baby counts, my stomach will literally not allow me to go there.

And I agree with Hitchens obsrvation: "That which can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."