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Politico Features the Ethics Issue at State - READ ALL OF THIS

The most damning part of this essay is in the second half - it's OLD NEWS now. ABC News apparently got a Clinton appointee removed from a State Department committee on nukes for which his qualifications were that he is a donor to Clinton campaigns and Foundation.

POLITICO

A Logic Refresher - Classic (Informal) Fallacies

This is mostly a republication of an essay I published on Daily Kos on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009 10:09 AM PST. The current link to the original is http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/15/814540/-Logic-Refresher-8211-Cl.... I have removed a bit of Daily Kos specific material and fixed some bad grammar and such. I wanted it over here in my archives for reference.

I am not perfect, nor would I want to be.

Recently hopped into the world of Online Dating, at the request of one of my friends who thinks I need to get out there and stop being quite as much of a homebody, and it tossed a lot of my online reactions and interactions into sharp relief.

It's amazing, but even in a format where the ostensive goal is to meet and talk to people in a manner that facilitates meetings and interactions, there is the same kind of garbage that you see in all sorts of online interactions.

The Dreaded Site Meta - Shills and Thrills

tone controlGood evening friends and fellow judges of the Great Quadrennial National Beauty Pageant, whose season is now upon us.

Now that the preliminary rounds are over and we roll inexorably on to The Marking of the Ballots, it seems that many are concerned about the appearance of shills showing up at our virtual doorstep attempting to work the judges like a horde of deranged, door-knocking religious fanatics seeking converts.

But seriously folks, let's have a talk about shills.

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