OPINION | BRENDA LOOPER: Swift and unsure

Probably everyone has had to deal with a friend or family member who has given in to conspiracy theories. But where once those truly invested in outlandish tales that just a few seconds of research could debunk were usually given at least some access to the therapy they might need for their paranoia, now we reward them with seats in Congress and elsewhere.

And you wonder why I don't like politics.

Now, everything is a conspiracy, even Taylor Swift's romance with the Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce. I haven't paid attention to the NFL in years (and I used to watch religiously in my youth), but now I can't get away from it. There's even a theory that Swift wrote a spy movie/yet-to-be-published novel ("Argylle"; she didn't, but that's neither here nor there); there's apparently very little that woman can't do.

I'm