Man, this hits home. I got into it with my brother in law at Thanksgiving about teacher pay and he asked me flat out what the average salary actually was in our state and I just sat there like a dummy because I had no clue, I was just running my mouth off stuff I saw on Facebook. We ended up looking it up on his phone right at the table and I was off by like fifteen grand, which was pretty embarrassing but also kind of eye opening. What got me was that he wasn't even trying to dunk on me, he just asked a plain question and my whole argument fell apart because it was built on nothing. Since then I've tried to do the same thing, just ask myself what I actually know before I start yelling at people about it. Funny how one simple question from somebody who isn't even mad at you can do more than a hundred angry comments online.