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PG was looking for Andrew Sullivan. He is not tough to find. Sometimes when you do an unconventional search, you get unconventional answers. Knowing that the facility that hosts Mr. Sullivan is owned by Atlantic magazine, PG typed atlantic.com into the address bar. When the page emerged, there was a picture of a sailboat at the top. As it turns out, a man named Kevin Dowd owns the domain. As he tells the story ” I registered the domain in 1993 and used it for many years in business as Atlantic Computing Technology Corporation. It is now dedicated to Atlantic Class racing boats and wanton raving until such time as I might be able to use it in business again.”
A bit of this “wanton raving” caught the eye of PG. Did you ever doubt you were right about something because you couldn’t find proof of it after a google search? I’m tickled by two phenomena: If you can find it in a Google search, then it’s true. If you can’t find it in a Google search, then it’s not true. The universe is a spectrum of truths. Some appear absolute, like the sum of two numbers. Others are pure conjecture, such as religion. Truths can change over time, and many are the product of common agreement.
Internet searches are replacing the fog on the horizon of truth with a list of possible answers. The most credible is the one with the best web site. Queries that come up empty are no longer explorations into the unknown; they’re poorly phrased questions.
A leap of faith …If I can find it in a Google search, then it is true.
A logically consistent complement …If it is not true then i cannot find it in a Google search.
A formal fallacy …If I cannot find it in a Google search, then it is not true.
PG foolishly took a class in predicate calculus once. One day, there was a big test, and the class was nervous. The instructor walked in, wearing black from head to toe. It happened that he was a part time chaplain at a local hospital
PG heard a radio whiner…it may have been Glenn Beck…quote Osama Bin Ladin as saying that he was going to defeat the United States the same way he defeated the Soviet Union. By this, he meant he was going to continue to fight, and occupy the attention of the great power, until the great power was broken economically.
PG went on the internet to confirm this quote. He could not find it. This may meant that he was not phrasing his questions accurately. Or, it could have meant that Mr. Bin Ladin did not say this.
What he said though….that the United States is defeating itself economically…is starting to happen. If Mr. Bin Ladin did not say this, then maybe he should have.