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Evening linkage
Call it end of the week exhaustion, but this is all I’ve got.
sxKitten reports on, if not the best googlebomb ever, one of the best. Freedom Fries, anyone?
Dave Munger has long maintained that the anti-abortion movement is, in reality, anti-sex. This week, he provides a provocative link to Alas, A Blog, wherein Ampersand takes a close look at the policies supported by the anti-abortion movement, and asks: do these positions truly indicate a belief that abortion is the same as child murder, or do they merely indicate a desire to punish women for having sex?
Current top o’ the blog at Falafel Sex: a fine political cartoon, followed by a very naughty dog picture (which Bare Rump admirers will surely remember).
This post today from author Jay Lake gave my SiteMeter palpitations. Still cracks me up. Thank God I said some nice things about Jay’s story . . . I think some of these people really would like to bust me up. (Just kidding.) But now I’m wondering (cue whine): when do I get peon minions? Paul, you’re never going to live this one down.
Post script to the Ben Domenech plagiarism story, from Media Matters:
Summary: Ben Domenech, defending himself from charges of plagiarism, falsely claimed that one of the articles that apparently included plagiarized material “ran as inspired by [author P.J.] O’Rourke’s original.” There is, in fact, no mention of O’Rourke at all.
When is this idiot going to learn to stop lying about stuff which exists in the public record? You don’t win friends and influence people by lying your ass off after the fact. What. A. Dick.
From the Media Matters link, here’s a portion of Domenech’s defense:
In one instance, I have been accused me of passing off P.J. O’Rourke’s writing as my own in a column for the paper. But the truth is that I had met P.J. at a Republican event and asked his permission to do a college-specific version of his classic piece on partying. He granted permission, the piece was cleared with my editors at the paper, and it ran as inspired by O’Rourke’s original. [Emphasis added]
Even if it were true (which it isn’t; see above), “inspired by” does not allow you to lift sentences word-for-word from the parent work. Jeez.
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Coming this weekend: the joys of hardboiled fiction. Have a good one, everybody.
D.
Doc, what’s your email address?
Hey everyone,
I rarely ever post to draw attention to my shows, but I thought this weekend’s show was worth doing a little pre-publicity for.
On Sunday, March 26, I have Matt Rothschild, the Editor of The Progressive magazine, as a guest and the topic will be impeachment. Mr. Rothschild has laid out a very convincing case for impeachment of the President, and you can read about it here:
http://progressive.org/mag_wx030706
You can also listen to a 16 minute audio recording of Mr. Rothschild laying out the case for impeachment here:
http://progressive.org/impeachment
The show starts at 10pm and runs until 12am. If you don’t listen live, you can also go to http://whiterosesociety.org/ATR.html for audio archives of the show, generally available within a couple hours after the program ends. All my archives are there, and also at the website, http://allthingsreconsidered.org
To listen live: http://allthingsreconsidered.org/listenlive.htm You will need either Windows Media Player, Winamp, Itunes, or other streaming media player.
Hope you join me!
Bruce
Well, duh. Was there ever a question? It’s not coincidence that the same people who are anti-abortion are also anti-birth control, and against things like subsidized child care, etc. Following links from the ones you provided, I was most impressed by this post by Molly at Molly Saves the Day.
Wow. That’s what I get for avoiding political stuff: I miss one of the most spectacular self-immolations in the last year.
Ben Domenech is done. Like dinner. I particularly liked how the arc followed the standard pattern, where accusations appear, then the accusee (I just made that up) denies them as ‘college misattribution’ and ‘permission granted, column done in the style of’, after which a cascade of stolen material surfaces and the red-faced miscreant resigns while his supporters shriek about it all being the fault of the Evil People on the Other Side.
In Domenech’s case, it had a particularly cool twist, though: I like how he implied that stolen material had been inserted into his college columns by editors, and, silly him, he hadn’t objected. It’s like those damn Librul editors knew what would happen.