Shortspam

I've got a case of the grumbles today. Sleep has been evading me for months now, and I think it's finally taking its toll on me. I believe I have lost a close friend, and the drama is maddening. I have about 3 or 4 hours of sewing ahead of me, and it's making me anxious. My pain has been, well, a pain... but none of this is what set me off today, the proverbial "straw". I read a friend of a friend's blog. Yes, that is what made me cranky today, a stranger's blog. What this person put in their blog isn't even the whole of what burned my biscuits, either. I got thinking about people I know who believe they are somehow more enlightened or intelligent than everyone, and use a blog or a social setting to toot their own horns. The blog I read today was talking about issues, and the person was stating opinion and assumptions as fact, pulling random made-up statistics out of nowhere. A friend of mine (the one I have recently lost) does the same thing, and it annoys the hell out of me. If someone wants to have an opinion, fine, but if they want to state an opinion and call it "fact", they NEED to cite sources for their information. Without getting more specific, there's my ridiculous problem today...