PMMJ (cheetahmaster) wrote,
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Privacy, whiteboards, and giant penguins

"In no other situation would a party to a conflict who steals all of the evidence, withholds it from the world, and then selectively releases its own blatantly distorted, edited version of a fraction of the evidence be trusted. The opposite is true: that party would immediately be assumed to be guilty precisely because of that very behavior of obfuscation; that behavior is the behavior of a guilty party."

LATE SATURDAY NEWS:
* Good read: the growing gap between citizens and soldiers.
* Another good read: William Saletan on 'webcams, sex, and the death of privacy.'
* FBI claims peace activists are supporting terrorism.
* See, the Democrats need to put together more things like this.
* Dana Milbank on Republican cannibalism - literally
* A tale of small-time corruption in America.
* Scientists unearth fossils of a giant penguin from 36 million years ago.
* Wondermark talks about the Wright brothers.

Tags: 2010, news, quotes, science!, welcome to america
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