By Stewart Dobson
The older you get, as it is said, the more you realize what you don't know. This is not true. It is often the case that some people fail to realize what they don't know as they age because they don't know that they don't know and, therefore, become convinced that what they don't know either doesn't exist or is not worth knowing, if they knew it in the first place.
That seems perfectly clear to me.
But there are many things that I either don't know or don't understand. Here are a few of the many things I don't know.
n All our branches of government say they pay top dollar so they can hire the best people. Considering that every government wants to hire them, are there enough best people to go around?
Further, if there are 22.5 million government workers, and therefore best people, in this country, does that mean the remaining 122.6 million people in the workforce are not the best people? And is this why the economy is in bad shape? I don't know.
n Why is it that tighty-whitey underwear gets such a bad rap? It is virtually impossible to put tighty-whitey underwear on backwards, while the same cannot be said for boxers on a blurry morning after a long Saturday night. Assuming this is true, is it inappropriate to go to church on Sunday and say out loud, "Good Lord, I've put my underwear on backwards?" Secondly, why would you be discovering this situation in church? I don't know.
n If the Indians living in what is now Ohio in 100 BC had a historical preservation committee, would the people of Chillicothe, Ohio, still be living in mud huts? Since almost every town and city on the East Coast has a historical district featuring structures built around the same time, do you have to visit them all or will seeing just one do the trick? I don't know.
n If English is the official language of the United States, why hasn't someone told text messagers? i dnt no. For that matter, why hasn't someone told Louisiana?
n In the history of the world, more people over time have been killed because of religious differences. Is this because some people went to church with their underwear on backwards and the others found out?
n If every person, every bank, every business and every government went broke at the same time, wouldn't it be the same as not going broke? If, for instance, rich people had two dollars and poor people had 50 cents, and because of economic catastrophe rich people ended up with one dollar and poor people got 25 cents, wouldn't the rich still be rich and the poor still be poor? Why do I even ask that question? I don't know.
