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You, of course, have the highest "hit rate" among science fiction authors, but you have to hand it to the late(?) Robert Anton Wilson for specificity.  Consider the functional similarity between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWB-666">GWB-666</a> and TIA, let alone that the lexically similar <a href="http://aliberaldose.blogspot.com/2007/03/joseph-cannon-white-house-vote-theft_23.html">GWB-43</a> is also the name of a computer.  Consider the following paragraph, pp. 145-146 of <I>Schr&ouml;dinger's Cat Trilogy</I>, Dell Trade Paperback edition (1988):

<I>The man leaned back in his chair and gazed absently toward the ceiling.  He recited some names, beginning with Jack Ruby of Dallas and ending with <b>a senator whose private plane had crashed just the week before, on Christmas Eve.</b>  "Those are just a few," he ended, "who happened to find out too much about Frank Sullivan."</I>

He also depicted James Earl Carter as a Nobel laureate, albeit in Physics.  I also read with interest your report of a report of a weak "can explain" sort of vindication of Everett in <a href="http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-to-non-political-cool-stuff.html">Back to (non-political!) cool stuff!</a>

Another fine example of life-imitates-art was that one-season wonder of television, <I><a href="http://propagandamatrix.com/The_Lone_Gunmen_Realm_Pilot_Episode.htm">Lone Gunmen</a></I>.

You, of course, see the larger picture as well as any of them.  I shall re-read <I>Earth</I>.

Best fishes.