Truth Is Stranger Than Science-Fiction Comedy

In a post a few days ago, I quoted Ron Suskind's story about the Bush aide describing to him their view of the "reality-based community". Thinking about it since reminds me of the description of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy given in chapter 6 of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's alway's reality that's got it wrong.
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."