"Twenty lashes with a wet noodle!" That was the penalty Ann Landers (or was it Dear Abby?) used to impose on herself, whenever she was caught in some egregiously foolish error in one of her newspaper columns. I don't think I deserve the full twenty. But maybe ten would be appropriate. The … [Read more...]
“Project Blue Book” – Truth, History, and the History Channel
I hate to admit it, but I have no choice. I've started to look forward to the weekly one-hour shows of the History Channel series, "Project Blue Book." My initial response to the debut episode two weeks ago was that it was trash: awful as history, mediocre as drama. I still think it's trash, … [Read more...]
“Project Blue Book,” “The History Journal,” and the New York Times
For about fifteen seconds, it did look like a real newspaper when my friend Jake Horwitz handed it to me over lunch. HUNDREDS WITNESS MYSTERIOUS UFOS, the headline proclaimed in enormous type, and beneath it a photo of an arc of white lights embedded in a luminous green ring, against the background … [Read more...]
