T.A. Dorgan "hot dog" story-- discredited but still out there

[Mark Mandel]

I'd rather he failed. (All right, I'll shut up now.)

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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:42 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

> > As with every other kind of mistaken folklore, the persistence of an
> > incorrect etymology is unfortunate but hardly remarkable.
> >
>
> Given that a large proportion of the voting public (and those politicians
> who cuddle up to them) haven't absorbed the fact of evolution yet. . . .
>
> Though I believe that it is accepted by most that the earth is a sphere.
>
> Copernicus/Galileo only took 500 years to sink in.  Check back in 2610 and
> you will no doubt find that Tad Dorgan has passed.
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
>

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