There’s so much risible nonsense pumped into the public sphere on a second-by-second basis that attempting to correct the record is a task of Sisyphean proportions, but sometimes all you can do is put on wading boots and clean up the muck as best you can.

There’s so much risible nonsense pumped into the public sphere on a second-by-second basis that attempting to correct the record is a task of Sisyphean proportions, but sometimes all you can do is put on wading boots and clean up the muck as best you can.

The Joint Facilities Committee of the Halifax County School Board and Board of Supervisors met Tuesday to try and work out a solution to our high school problem.

A minor kerfuffle has broken out on our Commentary page over the past few weeks, involving observations made by yours truly about the end of the U.S. military’s involvement in Afghanistan, which was followed by a reader who wrote an angry letter in response, then a counterpoint letter from another reader, and now a counter-counterpoint letter from our first commentator, and it all has to end somewhere. Thanks to all for participating, and now it’s time to move on, as they say.

At times like these, a good maxim to keep in mind — not perfect, but pretty good — is that people who know typically don’t talk, and people who talk generally don’t know.