six impossible things

I used to really love this quote from Alice in Wonderland:

"There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

But now here we are.  I feel like I am forced to believe dozens of impossible things before breakfast and none of them are happy.

I was just watching Anderson Cooper.  Someone asked whether it was safe to swim.  And the doctor on the program said that if someone near you sneezes, then you could become infected.  And Anderson Cooper said, "What about sneezing underwater?"  And then he looked a little surprised at himself, marveling.  Like maybe it was possible to sneeze underwater.  And then he said, "Who knows about the science of underwater sneezing?"  

Who knows what impossible things we'll be asked to believe tomorrow.