"I Know You Think That What You Think Is What You Know But You Need To Know That What I Know Is That What You Think Is Not What You Know...You Know?..."

Two people know, to a certainty, what happened.

One of them is dead.

Six women just, ostensibly, did their personal best to decide which of two interpretations of what happened was more plausible and made a decision.

At this point, in an ideal world, everyone else, and I sincerely mean everyone, would sit down and shut the hell up about it.

This, of course, is not going to happen for a long, long, long time.

Maybe even longer.

Because along with the basic list of life necessities, food, water, shelter and contact with others, let's not forget to add the intrinsic human need to express our opinion about everything and anything, regardless of our expertise, knowledge, awareness and/or insight into said thing.

When, in the clear light of it all, we should all just sit down and shut the hell up.

This, too, of course, is not going to happen for a long, long, long time.

Long being defined as never.

Those who might take exception to my opinion regarding their unfortunate need to express their opinion might very easily, and predictably, refute my point of view with an age old assertion.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

To no one's surprise, I'm sure, I have an opinion about that.

Actually, no, we're not.

Entitled.

I'm not sure what bright light of yore first coined that philosophic phrase, but I suspect it was someone attempting to defend their own expression, very likely one that had little or nothing to do with facts, truth, justice or the American way.

And I also suspect that it caught on, primarily because a lot of people who had plenty to say about things they had absolutely no knowledge or education or credibility about were delighted to have somebody sticking up for their right to articulate their lack of knowledge and education and credibility.

Kind of an early, more erudite way of saying "well, he gets to do it.."

Now, those who are already geared up to smack back with some uneducated, poorly thought out retort that, bet the farm, will include the words "God given", "freedom" and/or "Constitution", should just take a breath and read on a little.

Whoever first said "everyone is entitled to their own opinion" was well meaning.

They simply didn't finish the thought.

As it was finished, eloquently in my humble o, some years ago by the noted public servant, Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts."

And what you might think, suspect, believe, hope happened, or didn't happen,  is not a fact.

It is your opinion.

As to the facts, here they are as I have been able to empirically research them.

Two, and only two people, know to a certainty, what happened.

One of them is dead.

Everyone, and I sincerely mean everyone, should just sit down and shut the hell up about it.