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[Mediakit.blogspot.com] Not All Who Wander Are Lost: Zack's livejournal is linked from Molly's blog, but it doesn't hit home for either of us until tonight that it feels weird to know that we are reading / have read each other's blog/journal. The realization is that blogging is something unlike any other form of media previously extant, specifically in that it creates a totally new relationship between the self and the other, one simultaneously fictional or imaginary in its default perception and yet chillingly real in its public posture. In other words, we delude ourselves too easily into thinking that anonymity is effective, that those who know us will not after all recognize us when we sit at our screens and mask ourselves in the hum of the global village, that we are part of the invisible masses when we venture out into the digiverse.
[Ashbrook.org] No Left Turns: Two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, on June 14, 1775, 230 years ago, the U.S. Army was born. The Second Continental Congress met as a Committee of the Whole and adopted "the American continental Army" and undertook to "raise ten companies of rifelemen." John Adams recommended that that fellow from Virginia, George Washington, age 43, be given command of the army. Washington attended the Congress in uniform (of his own making, from the French and Indian wars) looking, as one delegate said, "no harum-scarum, ranting, swearing fellow, but sober, steady, and calm." When Washington accepted the command, he told Congress that if "some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentlemen in the room, that I this day declare...that I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with." Less than a month later George Washington would ride from Philadelphia to Boston to take command of the militias ringing the city.
[Cloudshift.net] cloudshift.net | blog: February 2004: According to The AP, the deal is pending a physical, but Maddux, who turns 38 in April, is expected to report today with the rest of the Cubs pitchers and catchers.
[Indianalawblog.com] The Indiana Law Blog: October 2004 Archives: Earlier this month we posted this entry quoting from a story in the Muncie Star-Press which began: "Judicial candidate Jeffery Arnold is crying foul after the bailiff of his opponent, Delaware Circuit Court 1 Judge Marianne Vorhees, urged the victim in a long-dormant stalking case to go public with her complaints about Arnold, the deputy prosecutor in the case." In an entry a few days later we quoted from an AP story that began: "A former Delaware County sheriff has resigned his job as a court bailiff amid accusations he urged an alleged stalking victim to publicly criticize the judge's opponent before the November election."
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