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Reposted New Year's advice

Good advice, for bloggers and for everyone, from Wizbang:

Never say anything you would not be willing to repeat under oath.

Never say or write anything you would not want to see plastered across the front page of the newspaper.

Never write when you can speak.

Never speak when you can nod.

Never nod when you can wink

Well, I am not a winker but I would add, as lawyers always advise, "Say it in flowers, say it in mink, but never, ever, say it in ink." I'm afraid that I break all of these rules, daily, as I have a perverse tendency to actively resist PC just for the fun of it. Fortunately, I have no employer to object. That's the Maggie's Ideal Way of Life.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:09 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Here's some cynical advice along similar lines, harking back to the bad old days behind the Iron Curtain. It may prove useful for survival in an increasingly PC society:

Don't think.
If you must think, don't talk.
If you must think and talk, then don't write.
If you must think, talk and write, then don't sign.
If you must think, talk, write and sign, then don't be surprised.

I know, I know, it's maybe a little too cynical, but in my second life as a clinical social worker, I've gotten burned so many times by being open and honest that I've begun to think of my "profession" as a kind of nationwide archipelago of PC madness.

#1 Michael J Kubat (Link) on 2012-01-03 16:12 (Reply)

Even before there was the Internet, back in the 1940s my Dad used to tell me ..."never write down anything you're not willing to see in print."

Marianne

#2 Marianne Matthews on 2012-01-03 16:37 (Reply)

On the flip side, one of my father's best pieces of advice was "Get it in writing."

#2.1 LS (Link) on 2013-01-02 13:32 (Reply)

Good advice, as far as it goes, but they forgot the most important one:
A hacker can invent any embarrassing posting for you that they want and make you look like a maniac. Try to delete that.

#3 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2012-01-03 17:29 (Reply)

Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo said, "Never write a memo and never throw one away."

#4 Capt. Koons on 2012-01-03 20:41 (Reply)

I always told my kids to never say anything they wouldn't say in front of their grandparents. When the talks came to drugs I remined them that a typical jury would be made up of people like their grandparents who would not look favorably on using drugs.

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2012-01-04 13:04 (Reply)

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