Thursday, March 20, 2014

BamGoogled!

Oscar Wilde once said, ““Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.” For a man in California, a simple self-search on Google proved the opposite can sometime be true:  Washington Post – a little vanity led him to recognize himself as a sinner, at least within the eyes of the law. The man found that he was on the California “Most Wanted List” and rather than run, like most sane people would do, he decided to turn himself in. Actually, maybe Mark Twain is more apt here: “It is just like man’s vanity to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perception.” But I think Samuel Johnson has the final word on the matter, though serendipity and not intent: “The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.”

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