More on Paul
Kinda significant: The Washington Post ran a version of that Slate article on Ron Paul over the weekend: Ron Paul, opponent of the Fed and fan of the gold standard, a lone wolf no more. Unlike the Slate article, this one is an unequivocal slam piece. They're by the same author, and at first I thought they were identical, but they're not. I think they're the same piece, but edited by different editors. I went through and compared them. In the process, I have changed my opinion about the Slate piece. It is not a fair piece. It's smear journalism as well, just not as bad as WaPo. * * * * * * * Merge. I was intrigued enough by the different editing jobs that I went to the trouble of cutting-and-pasting them into MS Word, then running a compare/merge. The results are pretty interesting. Link. You can see that the WaPo editor brought more venom to the red pen. * * * * * * * One More Paul. In case you missed it: Ron Paul captures TWT/CPAC presidential preference straw poll. * * * * * * * Apologies. Sorry about all the Paul stuff these past couple of days, but I'm a creature of content. Unless I am posting an essay or notes from my journals, I blog what I see on the Internet, but don't worry. This won't become the Ron Paul blog. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BYCU Holiday Edition: Chocolate is a Valentine's Day favorite, but if you want yours in liquid form, consider Black Chocolate Stout. It sounds nasty to me, but I know lots of people like the chocolaty malts. * * * * * * * Quote. Best quote from my weekend reading: “The church [of Scientology] defines an Operating Thetan as 'one who can handle things without having to use a body or physical means.' An editorial in a 1959 issue of the Scientology magazine Ability notes that 'neither Lord Buddha nor Jesus Christ were O.T.s, according to the evidence. They were just a shade above Clear.'"
