What is Reality Anyway?

My wife tells me that I should just stop listening to the all news, everywhere -- particularly about Iraq -- because of my habit of protesting minor factual idiocies with enormous tirades. But I just can't quit it. Whenever elemental truth mixes with falsehoods, I am compelled to obsessively separate truth from everything else. I perform this ritual religiously and robotically, and as privately as possible.So, when on local radio I heard the liberal commentator, confused as ever about what she should say about Iraq, blurt out to her guest interviewee "...the so-called war-on-terror.