For my wife and me, the weirdest part of the Super Bowl experience was trying to explain the Rolling Stones to our kids.

“These guys were the most famous rock and roll band in the world when we were young.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah, they’re a lot older than us. Mick Jagger dropped out of the London School of Economics in 1963. That was the same year Daddy saw his first baseball game at the old Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Daddy was six, Mick was 20.”

“How come they look younger than you?”

“I’m sure they’ve had some work done.”

“Work?”

“You know, plastic surgery.”

“Huh?”

There were some ironies to the Rolling Stones playing at a Super Bowl in Detroit. After all, the Stones started out as a band that played American blues and R&B for nightclub audiences in London, and then became part of the British Invasion, bringing their version of our music back to…

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Click on this link. Read the headline and look at the picture in an ad that crowds into the body of the story. If the story itself weren’t so horrible, I’d laugh.

UPDATE:

Oops! Sorry, they changed the ad. When I first clicked on it, there was a big, smiling shot of Dr. Phil right next to the headline about the child rapist. I guess the ads are on some kind of rotation. Either that, or someone connected to Dr. Phil saw it and complained. You never know. Like I said, there are no accidents.
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I’ve often marveled at people who can say untrue things with such stunning confidence that they convince other people not just to believe them, but to believe untrue things with a burning passion.

Stephen Colbert now has an entire fake-news show on Comedy Central making fun of this very phenomenon.

The people who spew their nonsensical notions have to get more outrageous each year in order to stay on top of the media heap. That’s why a blowhard like Bill O’Reilly is reduced to pretending there’s a “war on Christmas” — a war in which America’s president is fighting on the side of the liberals and secularists.

I’m thinking about all this today because of two things I read this weekend. The first is an example of how people spewing crap with complete confidence can convince the entire nation that they’re right, even if the people they’re attacking are…

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