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[jazzfish]

Funagain is having a Sleuth giveaway. You're given all the information you need to solve a Sleuth puzzle, so you can decide at the same time whether or not you'd like the game. [I had an answer in about five minutes, and spent another five working out the contents of everyone's hand just to be sure. I also had the advantage of not needing to print out a record sheet.]

Cat 1, Spray Bottle 0: "Now there is no spray bottle, and her opression is at an end."

NYT article on an intriguing form of therapy. Some neat stuff in here, including a head-game I may want to start playing with myself.

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Political:

Machine at Work [Krugman on DeLay and Enron] : quick summary of ties and legal entanglements, and a reminder of why both campaign finance laws and energy regulations are good ideas.

Factual backup for Fahrenheit 9/11. ["So now the FACTS are partisan?"]

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" --John Maynard Keynes.

Comments

[queue.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the Sleuth puzzle was fun. Took me a bit longer than 5 minutes, though. Hmm, I might have to get the game (if I don't win it).

[jazzfish]

Sleuth is a great multiplayer logic puzzle. I think you'd get a kick out of it.

[rubinpdf.livejournal.com]

It all depends on what your defintion of "is" is. (http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm)

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

Is "is" defined as loosely as some define "contact" or "had"?

[jazzfish]

Your irrelevant reference to the wrongdoing of a previous Democratic president has been duly noted.

As for the "deceits" themselves . . . I find some of them plausible, some a matter of interpretation, and some downright ludicrous. [#15, for instance.]

Few if any of these 'deceits' are factual errors. They're along the line of the Iraq-Al-qaeda connection. Why do you hold a journalist to a higher standard of integrity than your President and Vice-President?

[And someone else has been kind enough to do my work for me refuting these 'deceits.']

[cxi162.livejournal.com]

It should be clear that facts in an of themselves are neutral, however Moore shows how easy it is to misrepresent them such that they tell a partisan story. It's the art of the professional propagandist, aka Moore.

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

Or the art of a Fair and Balanced(TM) news reporting organization. Michael Moore reports. You decide.

[jazzfish]

Got to go with Jonathan on this one, in addition to observing that the term 'documentary' when used in film has a solid history of presenting a viewpoint.

[laughin.livejournal.com]

So is kitty really after the water bottle or does he eat plastic like Chaos?

[jazzfish]

*laugh* I suspect that only Chaos is special enough to eat plastic.

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

Neato. I haven't played Sleuth before, but if I don't win it I'll definitely have to buy it. Darn it, why'd you have to go and mention Funagain? I don't need another game-buying spree!!! :)