While We Were All Diverted By Hank Silverberg I t has been a brutal week. The aftermath of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton were horrible to see. The subsequent renewed debate over gun control was predictable and vitriolic. Then there was the raid on those five food processing facilities in Mississippi where more than 600 people were taken into custody as suspected illegal aliens. What we didn’t hear about, because it didn’t happen, was any indication that the companies involved in hiring the undocumented workers would be penalized in any way, since they broke the law by hiring those workers. And then high-profile sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died in prison where he was awaiting trial. It was determined to be a suspected suicide. The internet and social media exploded with conspiracy theories, including one retweeted by Donald Trump. Yes, the President of the United States was spreading rumors and promoting conspiracies. (