Comments: So, why don’t people remember the facts?
If people remembered what passed, we wouldn't need term limits.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at October 21, 2014 5:44 AM
If time didn’t go by so fast I wouldn’t dwell so much in the past. — Zippy
Posted by chasmatic at October 21, 2014 9:55 AM
I always arrive to work late, so I make up for it by leaving early.
Posted by ghostsniper at October 21, 2014 2:42 PM
My uncle Louie Lozko, we all called him "Letsgo Lozko", he raised bantam chickens. He never forgot anything in all the years I knew him.
"The cheapest ink is better than the finest memory" he told me.
Posted by chasmatic at October 21, 2014 10:02 PM
The entire Iraq War episode was the perfect demonstration of what Hitler relied upon for the big lie.
Its a psychological thing that human beings suffer from; they can be swayed from something they know objectively and factually to be certainly true by screaming hard and long enough at them.
There were so many voices from so many places so loudly and angrily insisting upon the lies that people started to think "well, they can't all be lying, can they? They wouldn't be so very upset and insistent upon it if there wasn't some truth to this, despite what I know."
The lies even infected the right, who began backtracking on things they knew to be true. And today, the myths of the Iraq war have become an entrenched part of American consciousness like so many things in our past: Kitty Genovese, the Reagan Homeless, and Nelson Mandela as hero, etc etc.
Posted by Christopher Taylor at October 22, 2014 8:34 AM