The Day The Facts Died
Must read obituary for the Facts, written by Chicago Tribune reporter Rex Huppke. This will confirm what many of us suspected, but pin points the actual date of death:
A quick review of the long and illustrious career of Facts reveals some of the world’s most cherished absolutes: Gravity makes things fall down; 2 + 2 = 4; the sky is blue.
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To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet. Though few expected Facts to pull out of its years-long downward spiral, the official cause of death was from injuries suffered last week when Florida Republican Rep. Allen West steadfastly declared that as many as 81 of his fellow members of theU.S. House of Representatives are communists.
The equivalency re: global warming rankles, but we should be accustomed to journalists Not Getting Science.
Tell us how you’ll be mourning the death of Facts in the comments.
When facts moved into hospice care during Bush’ 2 , still thought that there was a chance. I thought some miracle cure was going to be found.
Now if 81 Senators were Communists we might at least have health care.
I think the beginning of the end was when we lost Joe Friday.
Another important date of the demise of Facts was October 17, 2005 – the day Stephen Colbert invented the word “truthiness”. You can read all about it in Wikipedia, because that where all the rotting corpses are today.