The internet in general and the blogosphere in particular have blurred the line between fantasy and reality to an enormous extent. One classic example of this is the phenomenon of the “sockpuppet” (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet).

Another recent example is when Think Progress accused John McCain of plagiarizing a 1996 speech by Admiral Timothy Ziemer. It was later discovered that McCain actually gave the original speech at least a year before Ziemer. Think Progress claimed they had exercised due diligence by conducting Google and Nexis searches, as if nothing exists outside of cyberspace. (BTW, the speech was posted on McCain’s Senate site, but allegedly didn’t show up in TP’s searches).

Here’s a link to the post:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/27/mccain-plagiarism/

Comment #150 puts it well: “Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.”

This blurred line of reality has spilled over beyond the virtual world, too. Back on November 17, 2006, I wrote the following:

“In a world where fiction poses as non-fiction (e.g. A Million Little Pieces by James Frey) and now apparently non-fiction poses as fiction (e.g. If I Did It by O.J. Simpson), everyone needs to exercise a little healthy skepticism, no matter how much a story fits into your world view.”

As to whether “Clint is somewhere in there chasing little girls on two wheels,” I’ve decided to give up altogether trying to speculate what goes on in a person’s mind, let alone what they might or might not be doing in the virtual world.

You may have noticed I’ve cut way back. As in your link to PTS it, and I, am/are just spinning wheels. I finally read the storm front posts dumass linked to. Some is mine, but apparantly someone has been able to edit some of my stuff, and some is direct from here. I still have friends there that are looking into it.

Point is PTS folks are a waste. They lie ignore comment from a totally biased position aand it seems even hack posts somehow. Not being a computer wiz I don’t know how that is done. Doesn’t matter anyway.

But I think I am going to back out of this a bit, or alot. There are to many real world things to do that may makee a bigger diff.

I’ll still be commenting time to time but not posting much.

Funny thing I learned recently though. Even though Clint supports virtual child porn he claims to not be interested.

Then he claims to be at a peaak of somekindd in a field that would allow him to do succh things as create virt CP.

In no way thinking of that,I had recently investigated “Second Life.” It has made much news lately in various legal battles over proprietary creations and is even mentioned on various tv and talk shows. Well I spent a few days poking around and guess what? There are Virt CP areas as well as every type of porn imaginable in this world. I wonder if Clint is somewhere in there chasing little girls on two wheels?

I knew it was only a matter of time.

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