On Privacy
It may come as a shock to some of you that I am a rather private being, and it may be even more shocking to you that I quite like my privacy. I suppose one or two of you will flat-out deny that I want privacy - I mean, come on, I have a blog . According to that line of illogic, I must therefore be an attention-seeker who neither wants nor deserves any measure of peace and quiet. Others will say that the only people who want privacy are those with something to hide and that by having something to hide (i.e. not being totally virtuous), I forfeit my right to have something to hide. Let me just say that this isn't some great, profound, moving diatribe against the governments of the world for snooping on us. Other people have done that before me, and they've done the subject more justice than I could ever hope for in my writing. This is quieter, I suppose, and more personal. I believe that everyone deserves privacy in their personal lives, or to put it more accurately, if th...