…while Truth is lacing up her boots. Thus spake Mark Twain, and he never

said a truer thing.

Case in point: The famous chart purporting to show IQ by state, with states

that voted Gore in 2000 ehibiting a higher IQ than Bush states. The chart

was a hoax, though even The Economist (yes, I know, some people would

dispute that “even”) was taken in by it. Steve Sailer, the best Satanaut on

the Right, expertly and thoroughly debunked the whole thing.

It’s still out there, though. Someone quoted it at me at a Thanksgiving

party, unaware the whole thing had been exploded. Now this morning, reading

New York magazine in the dentist’s office, here is Kurt

Andersen trotting it out again. (Though it’s not altogether clear if

Andersen believes it.)

This one will run and run. Twenty years from now you will be hearing about

how “it has been proved” that Dem states have higher IQs than GOP ones.

Billy Bunter mis-construed the Latin tag magna est veritas et praevalebit

as: “The truth is great and shall prevail a bit.” He got THAT right.