This is an enlightening article about a couple of anonymous quotes that apparently make the forwarded e-mail rounds every once in a while. I found it clicking through a Snopes page that I found when I googled a phrase that I heard from one of Rush Limbaugh’s guest hosts recently: “Professor Tyler’s definition of [...]
Can’t say that I blame them.
Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.
This is a fun one. Check it out.
Sweet Seventeen — Ari, The Edge of the American West
“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”
The website covered by this article is thankfully a prank. Yikes.
It’s about freakin’ time. There is a lot of broken trust to be recovered in these matters. Example:
The new Bush immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed — Michelle Malkin