John Hodgman, author of the exceedingly funny “Areas of My Expertise” and “More Information Than You Require,” is interviewed in Psychology Today.

Ideally, fake facts help to jostle our imaginations. They remind us how much of actual history is so strange, and novelistic, and practically unbelievable.

But I am not a lunatic. Obviously I know that it wasn’t Satan who had taken over Jefferson’s mind, but the Mole-Men.