Back in the Seventies, Tom Lehrer said that political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Naughts, paranoia has become obsolete for a similar reason: reality keeps trumping the most whacko of conspiracy theories.Commenter Jana responding to Dennis Rahkonen's column, "What if crazy conspiracy theories are actually correct?" over at The Smirking Chimp.
Open Thread: Big Talk Butters No Parsnips
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Post-Labor Day reminder, for the doomsters: If Black Americans could
survive hundreds of years of slavery and legal degradation, you can survive
the next...
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