The Hockey Mom had an affair with the Hockey Coach?

[PCIntern]

No, Sarah...it's PUCK...with a P! You're supposed to play with the PUCK... Moran...

God Bless America and God Bless the National Enquirer, now The Paper of Record.

[Kutjara]

1. I'm honestly starting to believe that the Large Hadron Collider...

...has pitched us into a mirror universe, one in which experience and knowledge are handicaps, being a clueless rustic fundy is an advantage, Orrin Hatch is the voice of sweet reason, Ed Koch makes sense, and the National Enquirer is a sober and well-researched journal. If I see a white rabbit with a pocket watch tomorrow, I won't be a bit surprised.

[PCIntern]

2. In the 80 's My Mom and Dad told me that 1930's Germany was like this

and we were fast approaching the level of untruth as promulgated by that regime. They are both departed now,but I can hear their voices clear as day when, well, when 'shit' happens now. That's the only word for it...

[Kutjara]

3. You make an excellent point. The parallels are frightening.

The GOP and its media enablers figured out thirty years ago they can't tell the truth about what they're doing because, if they did, most of them would be sent straight to jail for treason. On the other hand, if they lied and were caught, the consequences would be just as dire. But nobody can guarantee that a big secret like treason will remain secret forever. So the GOP leadership have spent the better part of three decades assaulting the very concept of "truth" itself. They spin, manipulate, manage, conceal, reveal, and massage the truth in such a bewildering array of ways that it loses its power. Nothing is real, everything is open to interpretation, one man's treason is another man's patriotism, etc.

Once the concept of truth has been degraded into merely one option among many (a useful tool but nothing to get too attached to), nothing the GOP does has any consequences any more. They can do whatever they like, because the rest of us have lost the moral compass by which to judge them. It's all relative, you see? Lie us into a war? Well, politicians do that, don't they? No big deal. Destroy the economy to benefit a handful of billionaire cronies? Well, that's just business, isn't it? Rig elections, exclude voters, manipulate the polls? Hey, elections are a game, and the object of games is to win! USA! USA! USA!

Nothing is false anymore, so nothing is true.

[DeeDeeNY]

4. Just like "1984"

The parallels are truly chilling.

[victoryparty]

5. Enquirer was right about...

...Limbaugh and pill-popping, Edwards and the affair and probably Bush and the boozing around the time of Katrina.

They may be right or wrong here, but to automatically dismiss the story because the NE broke it might be a mistake.

[PCIntern]

6. who's doing that?

Did you see a :sarcasm: next to my writing? No?