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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Thursday, May 30, 2002

Via the Backfence, Neighbor Lileks discusses the always ripe subject of childhood misperceptions:
The old "FBI" TV show always ended with a lecture by J. Edgar Hoover, the Principal of the FBI, seated at his desk like a big pink ham in a suit. He frightened me. Until Walt Disney, who always seemed happy to see us, J. Edgar looked as if he knew we took that piece of chalk from Sunday school last year, and he was waiting to hear one good reason why he shouldn't tell the pastor. I was scared of the FBI, but I trusted them. The idea that they might screw up a terrorist case was as preposterous as Russia joining NATO. Well. The longer you live, the more you realize that everything you knew as a child is probably wrong.


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