Most of us don’t know what to trust these days. We’re living in a time when Snopes – after 30-some years now the definitive online reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors and misinformation, once known as “fact-checking” – lights the way. Their crack investigative team must validate whether a sitting president dozed off in the Oval Office during a coal industry event and woke himself up by passing gas, as a video allegedly shows. (According to Snopes, the alleged flatulence didn’t occur.) I am not making this up. And I refuse to write another word about it, except to say I suspect it didn’t pass the smell…