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Fiction and Reality

By chris | Published: 26 October 2009
Frank Rich had a great piece on the balloon-boy fiasco in Sunday’s Times. Richard Heene is the inevitable product of this reigning culture, where “news,” “reality” television and reality itself are hopelessly scrambled and the warp-speed imperatives of cable-Internet competition allow no time for fact checking. Norman Lear, about the only prominent American to express [...]
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A True-Born Englishman

By chris | Published: 23 October 2009
— A true-born Englishman’s a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. Daniel Defoe (1703, h/t Sullivan who has the rest) Pat Buchanan’s rant on the passing of WASP-supremacy has attracted no soul-searching whatsoever as far as I can tell. As  Serwer say, ‘good riddance’, and very well said too, but Robert Farley’s response I thought was [...]
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