Shirky also described how Facebook attempts to minimize  the privacy of its users. It's a three step process: 1. Facebook oversteps its bounds  2. There is a public reaction 3. Facebook apologizes and scales back—but not back as far as they were before the change.  The company never retrenches fully and some portion of its users' privacy is made, well, less private.

Just what I think. Facebook has shown itself to be untrustworthy.

Cuccinelli said he could not say how much of his staff's time has been devoted to writing Virginia's next filing in the suit--due June 7 but estimated it likely reached "scores of hours, for sure."

This is an important point because Cuccinelli has so far said the suit has cost the state only $350, the court filing fee, and declined to break down how much the state is paying to staff working the issue.

But I guess it's all right to spend the money as long as you're trying to establish that you don't have to spend any money on health care

Denise Graveline takes us from the football field to the guitar studio and provides some valuable insight.

"You can't stop when you make a mistake," he said.  "You're pausing to think what you did wrong and how to fix it. But you've got to keep going. The pros make mistakes all the time, but they keep going."

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Take the stopping.  I know full well that "ums" trip lots of speakers up. The speaker's got a heightened awareness of any mistakes she makes, especially if she's nervous or not as practiced at it.  And ums serve as a verbal pause while you're trying to remember what it was you wanted to say.  They're also a normally occurring part of everyone's speech.  Nonetheless, if an um throws you off and you stop, you'll find your momentum and focus tough to recover.

When we're trying to learn or perfect a new skill, we often forget our other experience or accomplishments and what we've already learned. Here's a reminder of how valuable it can be to apply all our experience. Click through to read Denise's whole post, then let us know how you've learned to be a better speaker from another of your skills.

Scalia, in a 1995 decision on the separation of powers, made the same mistake as Palin. Two readers, on other hand, disagree with the standard interpretation of the poem. One writes:

In my opinion, Frost doesn't actually choose a side between his two characters.

It is true that the narrator feels "something there is that doesn't love a wall," and tries to convince his neighbor that they are not necessary. But the narrator is not Frost himself. He appears to be a whimsical man, who likes to tease that his apple trees will not eat the neighbor's pine cones, and wants to enter into jokes about elves. The neighbor is plainspoken and stolid, and only responds, "good fences make good neighbors." But his obstinacy could easily be due to finding the narrator irritating. Frost is talking about boundaries and how different people have different tolerances for them. I'm not out to set up Palin as a literary expert, but she is adopting a perfectly valid side of the argument.

The other writes:

You and Palin both have Frost wrong. It is the act of repairing the wall that forces the neighbors to work together each year.  It is this communal act of repairing the barrier that seperates them, that forces the human interaction, thus making them better neighbors.  Frost doesn't like walls, but jointly maintaining the wall is its own benefit.  Thus, "Good fences" (those that are kept in good order) make good neighbors" (neighbors who communicate, work together, etc. on a regular basis).

If the Palins and their new neighbors worked together to build a privacy fence, the communal act of building would make them better neighbors, according to Frost.  And it would also give the reporter a perfect opportunity to make small talk ("So, tell me about your kids ... ")

I think I'll forget Palin and focus on Frost. Thanks to @PoetryFound (and Andrew Sullivan) for bringing a good poem back into focus for me.