Who noticed?? How quickly ...

... the conversation has been shifted from a domestic terrorist committing a heinous crime to nonsensical jabbering about the Confederate flag.

Our country has got to be the world's leader with a population that's so easily manipulated and propagandized.

"Let people believe that they're thinking and they'll love you. Require them actually to think and they'll hate you for it." -- Voltaire.

It's little wonder the bulk of the citizens take no part in meaningful discussion. We're addicted to one-liners and whatever we can squeeze into a couple of sentences on Twitter or Facebook, none of which has substance.