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When I was deputy editor of the New Republic during a seven-month period of apostasy in 1994, there were no fact checkers; it was before the whole Ruth Shalit business, so the fact checking "department" that Jack describes did not exist.
May I suggest that he seek role models in the world of checkers, a supremely challenging game (there are 500 billion billion possible positions on the checkerboard) that doesn't get the respect it deserves?
It's blissfully satisfying to hear Arlene--who has replaced her Bobby Sherman posters with those of her Dick and who fantasizes about romping on a beach with him in slow motion--come to her senses and utter the immortal reproach, "You kicked Checkers and you're prejudiced and you have a potty mouth!"
In the section on Computers, I was particularly interested in reading a vignette on spelling checkers (p. 695), made to appear ludicrous, and on scanning (p. 705).
Popular, too, is the game of caroms, played by flicking checkers on a square board with corner pockets.