Editor’s Column: Opinions are like ___?

Fill in the blank. The point is, everybody’s got one. I usually use noses, although other body parts might be

more apropos. The technical definition of an opinion is “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.”
In 1275 British monarchs established De Scandalis Magnatum, which prohibited the distribution of “any false News or Tales, whereby discord, or occasion of discord or slander may grow between the…