More on Revolution from Clay Shirky

1.  I didn’t turn 50             Rinse and repeat that blessing for two more years!   2.  Healthcare reform has provided plenty to blog about for the whole year!             Rinse and repeat for  . . . ?   🙁   3.  Neither of my children are adolescents             . . . yet!   4.  Two…

A scandal is rocking Egypt, now that word has spread that those unsightly bandages on Anwar el-Balkimy’s face weren’t there because he got beaten by a masked gunman but, instead, because he had had (horror of horrors!) plastic surgery—a procedure which many people in the conservative Islamist party that el-Balkimy belongs to considered to be “sinful.”
But the real scandal? His lies were brought to light by the doctors who performed the procedure, physicians who were so aghast at his brazen falsehoods that they unhesitantly violated doctor-patient confidentiality.
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