We live in times when a nation’s most powerful leader conjures up information at will with the pretentiousness of a socialite pulling a Chihuahua out of her clutch and the dexterity of an illusionist extracting a rabbit from his chapeau to rapturous applause from a bewitched audience that always sees but seldom observes. These are times when a spellbound public, eyes open and minds closed, is constantly fed a supposititious concoction of skulduggery with dollops of chicanery on a bed of false hope at an intensity and scale unfathomable not long ago. It is in times like these that it

