Bryan Derksen wrote:
I don't even see what's so undignified about
this particular incident
that anyone would argue it on that basis in the first place. Everyone
does boneheaded things from time to time.
Yes, but usually they do not end up being permanently presented in what
is arguably the most important encyclopedic record of our time.
Usually, such things come and go, a little blip in the news. Even
today, when tons of information does get archived on the Internet, the
power of wikipedia, and the breadth of it, means that for many
borderline or non-notable people the #1 hit in google is going to be to
the Wikipedia article.
http://www.google.com/search?q=brian+chase&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rl…