[Magdalen] New Yorker

[Jay Weigel]

I cleaned mine up seriously and left it at that. Not deleting as it is how
I keep up with some people in my life.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:34 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> I deleted it from my life years ago and seldom pine.
>
> I imagine the movement is about how (as Trevor Noah put it) Mark "Walking
> Peanut Allergy" Zuckerberg allowed such a good idea to become such a tool
> of evil in the wrong hands.  The premise being that he may have had the
> brilliance to create it, but not the wisdom to maintain it.  God gave Its
> creation free will; technology should never have such a thing.  (Remember
> that all his "safeguards" are put in place only after havoc occurs rather
> than doing the true "brilliant" thing and, shall we say, think ahead.)  I'm
> so glad that our seldom-bipartisan Congress is rumbling loudly these days
> about actually regulating such things, not as social media, but as MEDIA.
>
> I'm no fan of Sen John Kennedy of LA, but he can turn quite the phrase on
> occasion.  He recently likened Facebook to the social media equivalent of
> "The Truman Show".
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> "...[My mouth is a] shithole..." -- 45th US President.
>