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As my grandmother said, a man with two watches never knows what time it is. That’s not to be confused with “even a broken clock is right twice a day.” (I just realized that maybe Grandma had some fixation on timepieces….)

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Today’s NYT has a story about a former Capitol Hill staffer who is a “dissenter” and “skeptic” on climate change issues. He might even be a “misinformer.” Congratulations to the NYT for breaking out the thesaurus and not calling the guy a “denier.” That term is loaded and hateful in its message.

I humbly submit Colosimo’s Corollary to Godwin’s Law:

Labeling someone a “denier” on any topic other than the Holocaust is a violation of Godwin’s Law.

Do you have links to stories that share this view of the degradation in the climate change debate? It’s not about climate change, it’s about collegial debate on things that clearly have huge impacts on society but are almost certainly not inherently or deliberately evil (unlike say, Rwandan genocide or atrocious conditions in hospitals for the mentally ill).

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Fighting H-bombs with C-notes

2 September 2008

I read somewhere (here’s one reference and one that makes it both positive and negative, and another – any other favorites?) of someone referring to the not-so-casual, i.e., intentional, dropping of a reference that one went to Harvard as an “H-bomb.” (Not this H-bomb.)
Since my partner and I went to Cornell for business school [...]

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Emerson revisited – great quote

30 May 2008

I recently came across this quote and have been upset about not getting it posted sooner. It just oozes character.
An excess of parental attention may build self-esteem, which is useless, at the expense of self-reliance, which is gold.
Hugh O’Neill in “The Seven Dadly Sins” in Best Life magazine, April 2008, p. 81.
I think that trying [...]

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