I like to believe that with the breadth of information available to us through the internet, cable outlets, terrestrial and satellite radio, and not to mention good old newspapers, that we can keep an eye out for each other in a more efficient way than at any other time in history. And that may be true. But the converse is that we are flooded with so much random information that sometimes important information gets submerged by the unimportant.
Until yesterday, I had no idea that more than one in three …