The latest news of Former Orange County Assemblyman Michael Duvall caught talking about his extra-marital affairs on a hot mike and his subsequent denial of the affairs as reported by Shane Goldmacher and Patrick McGreevy in the LA Times. The affair would have been just another "he said she said" back and forth in the days before Google Search, where we would just have to rely on what is printed in front of us, shown on the local news or written on the lavatory walls.
Now we can filter the truth from the lies with the speed of a few keystrokes - "He Said" will be rebutted "She Said" within seconds and sometimes with accompanying scans of proof.
"There are two kind of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses. Yours...happen to have long noses." - The Turquoise Fairy / Pinocchio
Has the internet made us more honest? Or more careful of what we post online? We can't control what others post about us, complimentary or inflammatory. All we can do is flip on that switch that checks what comes out of our mouths or posts online first. Lies grow exponentially online, just like Pinoccchio's nose, copy and pasted into blogs, Facebook and Twitter, it leaves a trail that can never be covered up.
Please and Thank You
One of Emily Post's rules of etiquette for public behavior is "Set a good example. Rudeness begets rudeness." Your words and actions in the public and online forums show who you are, no matter how hard you try to hide one side of yourself, it will be revealed to the light of day like Dorian Gray's Portrait..
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Dorian Gray never had to account for his misdeeds, so he never learned from them; we don't have a cursed portrait of ourselves hidden in the attic like he did, but we do have our words online to account for. We need to learn from our mistakes because they are blessings in disguise, without them we would be forever a puppet and never a fully realized human being.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Nightmen
"There are two kind of lies, lies with short legs and lies with long noses. Yours...happen to have long noses." - The Turquoise Fairy / Pinocchio
Has the internet made us more honest? Or more careful of what we post online? We can't control what others post about us, complimentary or inflammatory. All we can do is flip on that switch that checks what comes out of our mouths or posts online first. Lies grow exponentially online, just like Pinoccchio's nose, copy and pasted into blogs, Facebook and Twitter, it leaves a trail that can never be covered up.
Please and Thank You
One of Emily Post's rules of etiquette for public behavior is "Set a good example. Rudeness begets rudeness." Your words and actions in the public and online forums show who you are, no matter how hard you try to hide one side of yourself, it will be revealed to the light of day like Dorian Gray's Portrait..
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
Dorian Gray never had to account for his misdeeds, so he never learned from them; we don't have a cursed portrait of ourselves hidden in the attic like he did, but we do have our words online to account for. We need to learn from our mistakes because they are blessings in disguise, without them we would be forever a puppet and never a fully realized human being.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Nightmen
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It is embarrassing that the public today believes they have a right to so closely intertwine the personal and professional lives of these people. Prior to the internet explosion, the professional press realized that rumors of adultery were largely insignificant in comparison to the policy issues these politicians deal with every day. Hopefully one day the public will learn to do the same.
The public feeds on salacious rumors; Britney Spears was one of the most Googled names last year. When certain groups made it a mandate to tie personal and private lives as a litmus test, it became the given. Also it doesn't help when one preaches "family values", and holds others to it, yet don't practice it themselves, they should be called out.
:O) ophelia
“Family Values” California state assemblyman representing Orange County, Republican Michael D. Duvall, resigns for apparently not cheating on his wife. Well you have to take his word for it, or maybe believe that hypocrisy has been bred in. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. He is just another name that can be added to the list of Republican 2009 summer of love: Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire.
But let’s get back to the real problem of political corruption, does anyone think this will get investigated and that things he voted on will need to be affirmed by the remaining members or will nothing happen? Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool.
Paul, get a life. You have copied and pasted this comment no fewer than 111 times. Check out the results of my Google search on your first sentence. Methinks you have an unhealthy obsession with Mike Duvall.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Family+Values+California+state+assemblyman+representing+Orange+County,+Republican+Michael+D.+Duvall,+resigns+for+apparently+not+cheating+on+his+wife.&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*&filter=0
Paul...get...a...life.