"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Now I Know What Twitter is For!

One of my favorite NPR programs is "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me", a weekly comical look at current "news".  It will both make you laugh and groan at times.  One of the things I like about it is the synergy of the panelists and hosts - sometimes ideas just kind of come together on the spur of the moment.  

This week's episode had a particularly good line.  I have never been able to figure out the value of Twitter, at least to where I should want to waste any time on it (although I can also say the same about Facebook and the other so-called "social networking" sites.   Combining comments from Paula Poundstone and host Peter Sagal following a particularly stupid conspiracy theory racing around Twitter that Obama had somehow caused Hurricane Sandy, the consensus between them was:

"Twitter is a dipstick for us - and we are idiots - its the only mark on the stick."

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