narrative

HUGE DRAGON EATS WHITE HOUSE, FIRST FAMILY DEAD!

By: Alan

On: 2016-02-05

First Posted 2016-02-05 Not. The tabloid papers used to do this a lot. The Hearst papers would feature gruesome photos of accident victims on the front page to sell papers. True or not, Hearst is accused of helping to start the Spanish-American War. The tabloids would gin up some wild storyContinue Reading

Truth, More or Less

By: Alan

On: 2016-01-24

In: Commentary, From the Vault

First Posted 19-May-2015 First, a couple quotes from my days with a sore ass in a melamine chair at college: Chaucer, at the start of The Wife of Bath’s Tale, “In the old days of King Arthur, of whom Britons speak great glory, this land was entirely filled with fairyContinue Reading