As I was vanity Googling, I found this surprising new entry for my vita:
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These idiots who think the Internet is making people dumb … it has made them dumb, that’s all. We have been through this again and again since Socrates claimed that writing destroyed memory. This Nicholas Carr character everyone is discussing is the same goober that wrote the Atlantic article claiming that Google makes us dumber, or at least makes dinner conversation less interesting to Nicholas Carr. Complaining that it’s too easy to find out random facts now (that it spoils all the fun and challenge) is like denouncing DNA testing because it makes the Tomb of the Unknowns a quaint conceit.
Gov. Gregoire proves she has McGinn’s number in an exchange (and color commentary) related in an amusing Seattle Times article.
McGinn has argued the city is at risk because of a now-infamous clause in state legislation that any cost overruns would be paid by Seattle-area property owners who benefit from a tunnel.
Gregoire finally told McGinn: “If you want it changed in the law, you need to take it to the Legislature in January. You get it done, you bring it to my desk, I’ll sign it.”
Asked later if she was calling McGinn’s bluff on the risk issue, she said, “Sure. He doesn’t want this project, period. This is just something to hang his hat on.”
Her point is that McGinn is strictly a born-again fiscal conservative. The people who follow him around yacking about potential cost overruns (and publishing their thoughts in Publicola) are idiots.
Reported dead today. Good riddance. That’s the IOC Life President in the middle.
Q: If you had to live in a city other than Vancouver, what would it be and why?
A: Berlin. For all the ways it disproves our ideas of psychogeography and haunting.
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