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The political season is hard upon us. Even the completely apolitical person knows this by the avalanche of nasty attack ads flooding the radio and TV airwaves and slick voter hit pieces crowding the mailbox. From ancient Greece to present day, political campaigns have been infamous for deception, malicious innuendo, disinformation and character assassination.
Innocence provides little protection against attack by professional smear artists. "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." So Hamlet warned the innocent Ophelia concerning the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and "the oppressor's wrong." George Washington, our ...