Hooo, boy. I hope that Anderson Cooper is being paid enough for this.

Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds dug up this episode of 60 Minutes from 1985. Anybody else remember when modern culture suddenly discovered D&D and completely flipped out?

I still remember an episode of Unsolved Mysteries from the same era. A young man had died by falling down a cliff. Possible accident, possible suicide, possible homicide. But the show had to have an over-dramatic scene of the boy’s mother going into his room and finding sketches of minotaurs and dragons in his desk. Then the voice of good ol’ Robert Stack, ” … he had entered the world of …. Dungeons and Dragons!” **dramatic chord!**