[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Debunked

[David]

Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 08:24 AM 2/7/2005 -0800, Mike wrote:
> 
>> quote attributed to Regan
>> admin Interior Sect'y James Watt is entirely fabricated.
> 
> 
> Interesting!
> 
> <James Watt was a controversial figure; but one thing he was not 
> controversial for was advocating environmental pillaging, on the theory 
> that Jesus would be back any day now. That would have been quite a news 
> story in the early 1980s, had it been true.>
> 

Interesting, and depressing, that in the eighties it would have
been "quite a news story", but now it is business as usual.

-David