Misc. Ramblings

Speaking of trust, in order to be trusted, you have to be trustworthy. Most people will give someone the benefit of the doubt. But get burned, even just once, and that trust may be gone forever.

So, when I post something that turns out to be untrue, I try to post an update to let everyone know. Such is the case regarding the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth student who alleged that he had been visited by Homeland Security agents because he had requested the inter-library loan of Mao's "The Little Red Book."

It seems the student lied about the entire incident. His own professors gathered enough information to make the student confirm that he (the student) had lied about what happened. No such incident had occurred.

The article says it is not clear why the student said the things he said.

However, I know why I said the things I said. I said them because I believed the news report. As it turns out, the report was wrong. I therefore must retract all that I said that was related to that incident.