Morning thought:

One of the news items that shaped my views started when I was a young teenager. It had child sexual abuse, Satanic rituals, underground tunnels, and a seven-year course of investigation and trial. In the end all charges were dropped; and it was apparent to anybody with any sense that there had never been anything to them from the beginning.

This was the McMartin pre-school affair.

I won't recapitulate the whole ugly mess; you can read about it elsewhere.

But I learned this: