re: #437 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That ship sailed when Dan Quayle was quoting The Hunt for Red October as some kind of treatise on Soviet capabilities during the 1988 campaign. Fact, fiction—wassa diff?
Ah, the good old days. IIRC, Quayle also used that fact that some TV show had an unwed mother as a main character as an example of America’s declining morals.