On Sunday, I filed my weekly column on BillOReilly.com, which lamented that many Americans believe what they want to believe, and the facts, or lack thereof, be damned.

Our nation is rapidly descending into a state where propaganda and insane conspiracy theories are all over the place.

This is not good as it obliterates honest evaluations of powerful people and important situations.

But there is something else going on in the public arena that's even worse: folks who don't want to believe ANYTHING.

Boy George sang about that in the 1970s: "I'm a man without conviction. I'm a man who doesn't know."

He might have added: "I'm a man or woman who doesn't want to know." And, in your life, you know some of these people.

They stay intentionally uninformed, inebriated, and apathetic. They live in the USA but don't care a whit about it.

I believe, based on the lack of news consumption and book reading in America, that this is a rapidly growing faction - especially among younger citizens.

And if that trend continues, our society will be drastically altered for the worse.

See you Tuesday evening for the No Spin News.