I really don't like getting political; I'm cranky enough on my own, but add politics as now practiced? Yeesh. But then Merriam-Webster has to go and make "gaslighting" its Word of the Year for 2022.

Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 30 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand ...