Sarah T Roberts, PhD: You know, Pierre Salinger was a key Democratic political operative in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was a Senator, etc., a news correspondent and largely widely respected by establishment politics. Toward the end of his life, he died in disgrace after he peddled a conspiracy theory…

You know, Pierre Salinger was a key Democratic political operative in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, was a Senator, etc., a news correspondent and largely widely respected by establishment politics. Toward the end of his life, he died in disgrace after he peddled a conspiracy theory…

…in disgrace after peddling a (benign, by today’s standards) conspiracy theory about the crash of TWA flight 800. We now have people in Congress who question the most basic laws of nature and believe in the most absurd conspiracy theories that one could imagine. What the fuck.

Remember when they were all obsessed with “Q?”

I still can't believe Howard Dean had to drop out of the race because he made a funny mouth noise at the end of a long day.

And the sound system in that room was already all fucky-wucky.

This is my Roman empire. Given the daily news, I think about that constantly. And how they made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. (Well, blind trust, but still).

This fact will never cease to befuddle me.

Look, he hadn't even reached his final form, so that preview was just terrifying for a lot of people.

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