Digging Deeper and Deeper - & Trivial Update

I was going to start with a link to "Time To Stop Digging," a post I put up the other day.  Except Blogger's crash wiped it out.  You can find a reference to it if you search, you just can't find the post itself.

Sigh.

OK, it probably wasn't brilliant.

It also wasn't really relevant except for the line itself.  The idea is pretty clear.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you should do is to stop digging.

Which brings us (quickly, you'll notice) to the (one-hopes) inimitable Joseph Radofsky.  He found himself in a hole.  Actually he dug himself into it.  Everyone from the Washington Post to the ABA to little ol' me noticed and commented.

Basic rule.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you should do is to stop digging.

The thing is, people who dig themselves into holes, well, they do know how to use a shovel.

And so, with credit to Scott Greenfield who's claiming naming rights,

Rakofsky v. Internet

Which is really quite a dramatic expansion of the hole.

But when you've got a shovel.  

And you don't understand the basic rule.

Personal thoughts from a member of the Rakofsky 74.

UPDATE

Blogger seems to have rediscovered the post Time To Stop Digging.   So here's the link.