Can You Know a Thing?

There is a line in the film "The Da Vinci Code" which I have always liked: "Can you know a thing and never say it again?" The biggest problem with knowing something is that it automatically means that one cannot be blissfully ignorant of what it means and how it effects ones thinking and actions. when we know something, it compels us to use that knowledge - for good or for bad. But it must be used. I haven't had much to say about the news lately, because the more I study the past, you can thank the Anti-federalists for that - the more the knowledge of what I am seeing and learning causes me to become more and more skeptical of the motivations and actions of the newsmakers around us. In the words of the anti-federalist, Cato, "Beware of those who wish to influence your passions, and to make you dupes to their resentments and little interests..."