If your Facebook feed is anything like mine, you’ve been regaled all day with absurd puns and other jokes relating to the kinky act that Donald Trump was allegedly observed taking part in with some prostitutes in a fancy Washington hotel that the Russians are threatening to blackmail him about.

There is a key point that needs to be brought into focus: The only thing we actually know is that U.S. intelligence found out that this story existed, and brought it to the attention of President Obama, and then President-Elect Trump, so that they would know that the story existed in case they started hearing it from anywhere else and in case it ever turned into anything they had to deal with.  But it’s still just a story.

With that in mind, I’m not going to post a link to the Buzzfeed story that has the alleged graphic details (though if you’re interested, you know how to use the search engines as well as I do), but I am going to post a link to the short commentary that the Atlantic just ran online, about the philosophical question of whether it was a good thing for Buzzfeed, as a site with pretensions to journalistic integrity, to make that story public.  Here’s the Atlantic piece.

I, personally, don’t really care if the story is true or not, because I, personally, have enough reasons to be unhappy that we’re getting Donald Trump for a president, with or without this story.

Again, I encourage you to keep looking in on this site, check the news updates at the right of the page, and post your opinions and thoughts on the Discussion board.