Tales From the Bully Pulpit

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™ and ©2004 Benito Cereno and Graeme MacDonald

“The Bully Pulpit,” of course, is what Teddy Roosevelt calls the time machine that he stole from H.G. Wells after it has been modified by the ghost of Thomas Edison. If that sentence makes your head hurt, stop right there. You’ll never be able to handle what happens once they get to Mars.

Tales from the Bully Pulpit is a light–hearted romp that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Edison invokes a little rule he likes to call “Edison’s Razor” to prove that the villain of the piece can’t be Hitler, since that’s the biggest cliché. Of course, it’s not the Hitler, but rather a Hitler, Adolf’s descendant Jorge. (Or is it?)

The resolution involves teams of good and evil historical characters, gathered in the finest Bill and Ted fashion. (Goliath vs. Paul Bunyan?) Tales from the Bully Pulpit revels in the same clichés that it pretends to condemn. But if you want to see Teddy Roosevelt dressed like Flash Gordon and fighting Martians on a flying carpet—where else are you going to go?

— Jack Abramowitz
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August, 2004
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