Proofiness

[George Thompson]

Review in today's NYTimes of a new book on the deceptive use of numbers, the title alluding to "Truthiness", introduced a few years ago and commented on extensively here, as I recall.  (Charles Seife, author; Viking, publisher; $25.95)

>From the review: "Inflating the size of a crowd to one million is the same offense, whether perpetrated about Glenn Beck's "Restoring honor" rally (Representative Michelle Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota) or a Million Man March (Louis Farrakhan).

Bachmann & Farrakhan.  What's that expression about strange bedfellows?  Which would be the more distraught, waking up to find the other sharing the pillow?

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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