No, don’t get too excited. But, in regards to my last weekly asshat’s asshattery, an apparently otherwise intelligent blogger, in posting her own rebuttal, suffered an extreme case of foot-in-mouth disease: […] romance novels […] are not “books”, as that word is normally used. They are either tools for relaxation Read more…
Introducing Charlotte Allen, from the Washington Post. Before I deconstruct her rampant idiocy, let me allow her to spew a few of her own words: The theory that women are the dumber sex […] is amply supported by neurological and standardized-testing evidence. Men’s and women’s brains not only look different, Read more…
Presented for your consideration, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of California. Whose attitude toward the free flow of information on teh interwebz seems cribbed from North Korea. Apparently a swiss bank is somewhat miffed at Wikileaks.org a website organized by a bunch of journalists and other activists whose primary mission Read more…
Hong Kong Actor Edison Chen. Who, through a critical mass of sleaze and stupidity worthy of certain toe-taping senators is embroiled in an internet sex scandal. Apparently Mr. Chen liked to watch himself, so he took pictures of himself getting busy with a bunch of actresses. Ok, I’m a Libertarian, Read more…
Paul McGuinness, manager of U2. Ok, we get it, music piracy = bad. But, do we think that either a) Making ISPs responsible for policing net traffic for copyrighted data or b) Taxing ISPs to compensate artists (read: compensate the monolith corporations that profit from said artists) are in fact Read more…
Steve Jobs, for the following quote RE the Amazon kindle: (via Gallycat) The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore. Yeah. The internet would really take off if people get over this whole reading thing. All those blogs filled with words and stuff. Man, you Read more…
I thought I had posted all I was going to on this. But, then, my wife was waiting at Walgreens to get a prescription filled and was walking past the book isle, and came across this. I draw your attention to the lower right corner.
Cassie Edwards’ plagiarism that is? Well I tried an experiment. I decided to spend part of my evening hunting down some CE sample text, look through it, and see if I can Google a lifted passage. I decided this at roughly 7:30. It is now 7:47. The seventeen intervening minutes Read more…
What follows may be as close to a complete statement from Cassie Edwards as we’ve had since the whole plagiarism issue raised its ugly head. It is allegedly an e-mail response to a fan expressing support, and is documentary evidence of why lawyers generally tell you to shut the f**k Read more…
Oh the things you find online when just clicking around at random. The man’s name is Tad Safran, he’s from the UK, and I do not think he gets laid enough. He has an article at Times Online (which I found via a post at the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Read more…