It is true. It is a terrible truth. I predict that in the comments to this post DA will provide us with links to what I will now describe to you as a sinister plan forty years in the planning and implementation. (I also predict that Parrotline will play a borderline game of equivalency construction using the example of Chappaquidick and Laura Bush and GWB’s DUI). That plan has been so sophisticated and convoluted that the entire liberal internet community has be consumed by the coiling snake, unawares, the coiling snake representing the plan of which I speak (for our slower readers already being digested by the plan snake).
The creation of a bold equivalency is now complete. Plagiarism is bad we now know that. Therefore all plagiarism is equally bad, and all perpertartors must be shunned equally, unless they be youthfully exuberant. Do you see where this trap leads? To our doom.
You see someone that lifts a line or borrows something in a speech, someone who is not a writer or conversely a historian who has performed mountains of research and volumes of their own scholarship who slips either in attribution or mixes up their notes in a work that has hundreds if not thousands of footnotes or other references- these scoundrels are the very same as someone living a double life, someone that lied to the world, their friends, their family in a serial fashion, someone who in essence lied and stole for a living. Since there is no room in our damning argument of the evils of plagiarism for degree, scope, intent, length of coverup, forcefulness of denial, we have created an airtight coffin for so many of our heroes. Trapped, our lives are slowly snuffed out. With our last gasping, breaths we detect a celebratory whiff of mozzarella and pepperoni and cacaphony of celebratory “heh, indeeds. ROTLMAO.”
But how does the other side escape this rhetorical logic trap? Their trump card is well played. Youthful exuberance.
How could we forget that Clif has more. AssParrot ca-caws here. ALSO, BASS-O-MATIC throws down the gauntlet to PP and AP for a NEW CONTEST!!!!!!!!!!!
It goes back much further than 40 years. The minutes of a secretarial meeting of the planning commission for the IWA’s founding conference in 1864 show clearly that sabotaging the future works of Ben Domenech was second only on the agenda to discreditng Bakunin.
Also, it is widely know that just before his death, Joe Hill was writing the libretto for a workingman’s opera adapting Oedipus Rex, with a character called “Den Bomenech” shown having graphic sex with his mother.
Porko Punko: OT news. Snorkel of it what you will.
Heh. Frankenhocks.
The link is here my friends for equivalency goodness.
I heard about the new, heart-healthy bacon on NPR this morning. Here, piggy piggy piggy!
Ewww, first they stuck a worm gene into the pigs and then they cloned the pigs? I can’t think of a more morally repugnant way to improve human health. Those bastards!!!!
UC< you are in charge of discussing healthy pork for Three Bulls! Science Thursday.
Is there any other kind of pork rather than the healthy kind? Oh wait, deep fried and covered in spices. Right …
OT, but I need to issue multiple blowjobs for the scrollover text on links on 3B!.
I kind of think that the Ben thing blowing over is like after Chirstmas/Pork snorkel when all the presents/pork have been eaten/eaten. That sad, melancholic feeling kicks in.
It’s true. Life seems like 32 cents and a handful of peanut shells.
But we were younger then, and didn’t realize the consequences of our actions.
Cant they just feed the pigs Salmon or something?
is that a petard?