No, I haven’t taken to watching soap operas.  Frank’s first immutable rule of life is, “the world runs on bullshit, and the bullshit never runs out.”  And regardless of what happens here or abroad, the bullshit just keeps coming, its largely contradictory, and we just keep eating it up.

For instance, am I the only me who’s tired of hearing from so called experts?  If you’ve been paying attention, then you must have noticed that we’ve been getting contradictory “intelligence” from these fakes for decades.  To quote Paddy Chayefsky’s fictional character, Howard Beal, “they’ll tell you any shit you want to hear.”

Just for the record, what is an expert?  Well, X is an unknown figure.  And spurt is a drip under pressure.  So I guess you could say that an expert is an unknown drip who has been exposed to pressure.  In any case, the guidance from these hoaxers is maddening.  You can count on experts to be on every side of every issue.

Take the economic “experts.”  President Truman once said that if you put all the economists end to end, they’d point in all directions.  He was right.  How many times were we treated to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, telling us that dozens of Ivy League “experts” had decided this, that, or the other thing, all in support of whatever bullshit story he was selling at the time?

These economic experts predicted higher inflation, lower inflation, transitional inflation, no inflation, stagflation, and deflation, all at the same time.  And regardless of which way they were pointing, the message was clear.  Stick with Bidenomics.  And you saw what that got us.

Then there were the medical experts, railing about cholesterol.  First eggs were wholesome and good, then eggs were bad, because they raised the level of cholesterol.  Then eggs were good again, because they contained cholesterol, but didn’t necessarily raise it.  Then they were not so good, but better than carbs.

And what about the cholesterol?  Well, not all cholesterol was the same, because there was good cholesterol and bad cholesterol.  Limits were established for HDL and LDL, and whenever you exceeded them, the drug companies were right there to sell you statins.

But then some other experts (and lawyers) told us the statins were dangerous, but don’t worry, because they had other drugs to replace them.  Then more experts (and lawyers) told us the statin replacements were dangerous, but fear not, because they had supplements to sell you to undo the damage caused by the other drugs they had recommended, and you could sue them anyway.  Got all that?

Then there are the alcohol experts.  A hundred years ago, alcohol was the evil agent of family destruction.  We amended the Constitution and endured Prohibition for 12 years before sanity returned.  That interlude put organized crime firmly in control all over the country.  But J. Edgar Hoover and the experts at the FBI assured us there was no such thing as organized crime.  Uh huh.

But back to alcohol.  More experts weighed in.  Some pronounced alcohol bad.  It would shorten your life.  Later, other experts announced studies finding that moderate alcohol use actually allowed you to live longer.  A couple of weeks ago, another group of experts told us that each drink shortens your life by two months.  I say screw all the experts.  Cutting out alcohol doesn’t make you live longer, your life just seems longer.

Then we have the frying problem.  Standard medical judgment is that you should avoid fried foods.  Not a bad idea if you can swing it.  But America became the land of the fast food franchise, and all of them had deep fryers.  Medical experts browbeat the food industry into replacing beef tallow as the frying medium, and and instead using what they said were much healthier seed oils, like corn and soybean oils.  These are the same experts who sought to ban coconut oil as harmful to health.  Yet today, coconut oil is considered a health food.

Enter Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  The Lord of MAHA, and new Secretary of Health and Human Services, who now cites expert guidance identifying beef tallow as a healthier frying agent.  Both sets of experts can’t be right, so what’s up?  Possibly what’s up is that the totally contradictory “expert” opinions we’re being fed are the products of whatever industry paid for these various expert studies.  Which is just another way to say, “the world runs on bullshit and it never runs out.”

But wait a minute.  That can’t be true.  Surely our government would protect us from being corrupted by mercenary experts whose opinions might be harmful to public health.  Seriously?  Don’t make me laugh.  Who do you think a lot of these experts are working for?

We’re talking about the same government that pumps out Public Service Announcements about rising levels of obesity, while at the same time passing out government subsidies to the sugar industry, and to the producers of corn and soybeans which are used to the produce the cheap seed oils, that the latest experts say are giving the whole country diabetes.

It’s the same government that subsidized oil production with tax breaks, then switched to electric vehicles and renewable energy, which it then subsidized, and in both cases, you paid the bill and the favored producers of the moment got richer.  No, the government isn’t the watchdog, it’s the lapdog of whichever industry can deliver the most money and votes.

The sad fact is that expert opinion is for sale to the highest bidder, and public safety be damned.  One need look no further than the debate over the legalization of drugs.

Drugs like cocaine and heroin have been illegal since 1914.  Beginning in the 1970’s, swarms of experts began preaching for drug legalization.  Well into the 1980’s I was getting drug cases in which medical experts argued that cocaine really isn’t a dangerous drug.  Then the experts teamed up with social scientists and race hustlers, and pronounced the war on drugs a racist scheme to imprison all minorities.

The drug legalization campaign began 25 years ago. Experts said if drugs were legal drug use would decline.  That led to the legalization of marijuana.  How good were the expert’s predictions?  In 2000 there were 17,000 deaths from drug overdoses.  In 2010, the death toll doubled to 38,000.  And now, with a weed dispensary on every street corner, we have more than 108,000 drug deaths a year.

I rest my case.  Not only does the world run on bullshit that never runs out, the bullshit can kill you.