Have you heard the news? If your answer is “no,” that’s because it’s not out yet. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have a terrible time making sense of the news. This is until I stop to remind myself of some basic principles and laws of nature. One of these principles can be simply stated “Everything that goes up must come down.” For example, if 10,000 airplanes take off and land safely, that’s not news. However, if one of those airplanes crashes, that is news.

Here is what the late Gene Fowler, American journalist and author (1890-1960), had to say about it. “The news is hi...

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