From the, “The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same Department.”

Central Alabama’s water board announced they are going to stop fluoridating the water. Reporters discovered they haven’t actually been doing it for years. See? All that worry about communist infiltrators, when our own apparent ineptitude took care of it. Reminded me of the movie scene in 1964.

General Jack D. Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation – fluoridation of water?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Jack, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.

General Jack D. Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don’t know what it is.

General Jack D. Ripper: Do you realise that fluoridation – is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

—1964, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb“