"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 Pentagon reaches out in an attempt to find better paying jobs with the Kochs and Murdoch. At least, someone realized that a pure lie would qualify them to be one of the oligarchies' better paid retainers.