Rest In Peace, Facts. We’ll Miss You.
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A reporter for the Chicago Tribune penned an earnest lament for a long-lost friend: facts. Those humble, hard-working statements of truth, long ailing in public discourse, have been proclaimed dead and gone by the Trib‘s Rex Huppke.
The time of death was sometime on Wednesday, “after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”
Huppke closes, as follows:
Facts is survived by two brothers, Rumor and Innuendo, and a sister, Emphatic Assertion.
Services are alleged to be private. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that mourners make a donation to their favorite super PAC.
Read more at the Chicago Tribune.
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