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Alter: How Obama Can Fight the Lies - Newsweek
“I’d like to burn them off,” says the Illustrated Man in Ray Bradbury’s 1951 science-fiction classic of that name. “I’ve tried sandpaper, acid, a knife.” Nothing works. More than a half century before head-to-toe tattoos, a time-traveling witch had painted colorful images on nearly every part of the man’s body. The elaborate stories they told made it hard for him to hold a job.
-----Email----- I want to hug the woman who's worried about her son's play date prospects. I would love to let my son play with hers.
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Abraham R. Wagner: Secrets Exposion
While the Pentagon is justifiably outraged by the massive leak of classified documents to the Wikileaks web site, it was an inevitable event. It is also a serious problem of the Government's own making. The individual responsible for the leaks to Wikileaks.com likely faces significant jail time. Responsibility for the damage, however, needs to be shared by those who created the situation in the first place.
--Do not forget that a poem, although it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information. In the autumn of 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein and his young Cambridge student and friend Norman Malcolm were walking along the river when they saw a newspaper vendor's sign announcing that the Germans had accused the British government of instigating a recent attempt to assassinate Hitler. When Wittgenstein remarked that it wouldn't surprise him at all if it were true, Malcolm retorted that it was impossible because "the British were too civilized and decent to attempt anything so underhand, and . . . such an act was incompatible with the British 'national character'."
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Introduction
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com
When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever. With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”White House Apologizes to Fired Official - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — , the black Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring by the Obama administration this week has sparked a national conversation about politics and race, said Thursday she believes she deserves a telephone call from — and the White House said Mr. Obama has not ruled it out. Ms. Sherrod, who until Monday was the rural development director for the Agriculture Department in Georgia, said she was inclined not to return to the agency. Secretary on Wednesday said he was asking her to return to use her expertise to help move the department past its checkered history in race relations, but she told the “Today” show on that she did not want the burden of solving the department’s racial problems to rest entirely on her. She said she would like to have a conversation with Mr.