Sunday, January 1, 2017

Honest Abe Warns about Accuracy: Bulletin Board Material

Every now and again, I'll post a cartoon suitable for tacking up on a bulletin board, or blending into an economics lecture. Here's a useful reminder from Honest Abraham Lincoln himself for 2017. Thanks to all readers who take a few minutes out of their day, now and then, to spend time looking at quotations from the Internet on this site.


This particular image is from cheezburger.com, but versions of it are all over the web.  I like this version because of the glasses. And yes, you can find message boards and social media where people plaintively ask something like: "Is this really true?"