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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

[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.