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More hypocrisy
Piers Morgan's house has signs warning of armed response by his security company.
Or maybe it's not even hypocrisy. Neitzsche wrote that different times have different vices, and true hypocrisy is a virtue for strong times. He cited the protestant Frenchman who became catholic in order to become king, and who quipped "I thought Paris worth a mass." He knew he hadn't changed his beliefs, the French knew he hadn't, but they required him to pretend that he had and they would pretend to believe him. It was a vice of strength: he had strong beliefs, they had strong beliefs, and the solution was hypocrisy. Today, in weaker times, the person just says one thing and does another without worrying about it. Or winds up as a narcissist, pontificating about rules, while believing themselves exempt from the rules, since they are a special person with special needs.
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Instapunk on Plaxico case
He has some fun with it. He suggests that trying to keep players away from guns is like abstinence only training, "What's urgently needed now is more realistic education programs that teach safe illegal gun ownership." "The current abstinence-only approach to gun education in the NFL, NBA, and Major League Baseball has resulted in a tragic victimization of some of the nation's most beloved and vulnerable stupid people."
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Suggestion: teach Britney to hunt as returning to normalcy
Doug Giles has a suggestion: teach Britney Spears to shoot and hunt as a step toward returning to normalcy.
(Hat tip to Bill Bailey)
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The Man Who Conned Oprah
The Smoking Gun has a new section on The Man Who Conned Oprah.
It seems that James Frey's book, "A Million Little Pieces," charmed her and made its way into her book club. In it, the author portrays his years as an alcoholic, junkie, criminal, and outcast, detailing among other things his criminal career of drug busts, melees with officers, jail terms, etc..
TSG's investigation indicates ... he made it up. His criminal record consists of a DUI arrest (for which he served no jail time, and the police report describes him as cooperative). A drug ring in which he was supposedly involved turns out to be some college students who plead out to misdemeanor pot charges (and he's not mentioned in the investigation, to boot).
His attorney threatened to sue TSG ... which would raise the interesting question of whether you can commit defamation by DENYING that a person is a cop-assaulting drug-dealer, and asserting he was actually an unoffensive, rather popular, student.