Over the July 4th weekend I celebrated by watching a lot of Founding-Fathery patriotic television shows. This was more disturbing than entertaining, as one particular show – which I shall forebear to mention here – set me off on a Rumpelstilskin-esque fit of rage. I actually yelled at my television as it, in all earnestness, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘myths’
If they said it on television, it must be true
Posted in TJ Encyclopedia Entries, tagged Declaration of Independence, hemp, myths on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jefferson still survives, unlike the other guy
Posted in Reference Questions, TJ Encyclopedia Entries, tagged firearms, myths on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s a little scary how persistent apocryphal stories about Jefferson are. Case in point: the perennial (for us) question, “Did Thomas Jefferson shoot someone on the White House lawn?” There’s no evidence that he did, and strangely enough, the source of this particularly bizarre story seems to be the movie Swordfish. [...]
