"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Dr. Menlo: censored by China, Blogsnob and "The Lefty Directory"
The Coup: "Let's make health-care centers on every block/Let's give everybody homes and a garden plot/Let's give all the schools books/Ten kids a class/And give 'em truth for their pencils and pads."
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