A few weeks ago Brit Hume announced he was leaving the anchor desk at Fox News. I heard an interview with him on NPR where he described the yearning to spend more time with his family and further explore his faith as two of the big reasons for the timing of his departure. Other big reasons included today's poisonous toxicity of politics and his wearied realization of having history begin to repeat itself in his eyes. 

I sympathize with his take on what the political and philosophical process have degenerated into in the world. Politics has become strictly an arena of debate charade, which present only a series of big lies, Hobson's Choices, false dichotmies, either/or propositions and straw men arguments that polarize the public and distort the problems we confront.  I am tired of seeing the silly arguments repeated endlessly to no good use.

We need to reject the whole pathetic cliche of having to make a choice between two negative positions on an issue. The world is filled with more than 6 billion shades of gray in trying to define any issue. If life were strictly a battle between good and evil we could immerse ourselves in Tolkien book, or play shoot-em-up video games and solve every world problem without much effort. The planet doesn't work very well when you allow the only choices to collapse into a spy versus spy discussion.