More Fun With “Amy”
of her latest book
Hey, kids, let’s go poke Albert “Amy” Alkon with a stick and have some fun, mkay?
Although “Amy” is allegedly a libertarian, she’s indignantly snorting and huffing about Obama’s selection of Joe Biden. She’s upset because she thinks Biden is a plagiarist. So why should a “live-and-let-live” libertarian like “Amy” be getting all moralistic and all cranked up about something that doesn’t hurt anybody else? Here’s why:
Maybe it isn’t a big deal to a lot of people, but for me, stealing the words somebody’s sweated onto the page is akin to stealing somebody’s TV, but without all the heavy lifting.
We can debate elsewhere whether this is a good analogy from a libertarian point of view. Right now, let’s just mosey over to another post “Amy” made just before her post dissing Joe Biden for plagiarism. Well, lookey-here, it looks like “Amy” has gone and busted into the Wall Street Journal’s offices and stolen all their teevees! Of the 504 words in the post, 448 words were copied directly from a 732-word WSJ editorial — in other words almost all of her post was nothing but almost all of somebody else’s work product.
I can hear “Amy” now cranking up her poutrage schtick and screaming to anyone that will listen that she said the quote was from the Wall Street Journal and that we’re just trying to silence her. Okay, then, “Amy,” when and if you publish another book, you won’t mind if we print 60% of it here as long, of course, as we give you credit, right?
So, “Amy,” give those TV sets back to the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal. With an apology, of course.
She’s not partisan, her views are totally objective and unbiased – you can tell because she’s on that paragon of objectivity – the Pyjamas Media Network. Look at her sources too – totally unbiased, it’s just a small oversight that famousplagiarists.com returns zero hits when you do a search of “domenech”.
Amy Alkon can eat a big bag of dicks.
So what if Joe “Plagiarist” Biden actually has credited me?
Never forget August 23, 1987, beaches! Never forgive, etc.
Gibbertarians 4 Justice!
P.S. Nice pic, Clif.
The fact is, I am laughing so hard at you stupid liberals. This will be a sure loser for Osama. We have two losers to vote against, well McCain is an experienced straight talking maverick who served his nation and worked hard. You should give up now and accept USA Power.
I hope McCain picks Cheney for VP. We need steady leadership in time of war.
Did you know that Joe Biden and John McCain are friends? Well they are, the teevee says so. With that in mind, taking Biden to task for plagiarism clearly shows a huge amount of disrespect to the sacrifice and torment that was John McCain’s experience as a POW. Oh, didn’t I mention that John McCain was a POW? Well he was a POW – and because of that, everybody should lay off McCain’s friend Joe Biden. POW.
Of course Biden plagiarized that speech. If you go back and read the transcript, at no point did he utter the HTML blockquote tag. DUH!
The fact is that plagiarism and copyright violation are different things entirely and there is a difference of several orders of magnitude between copying most of an article that is available for free and providing for free most of book that is for sale.
Yeah she’s being kind of a hypocrite, but it’s kind of every day ordinary hipocrisy and not enough of one for me to care about.
As a libertarian and a TV thief, I take insult to her charge. When I see a TV without proper measures to secure it, I take it. This does not make me a criminal, it just means that I value the TV more than they do (after all, I am risking my priceless freedom!). Since I value it more, and I end up with it, this only proves that the market for TVs is efficient and resources have been properly allocated.
What’s sad about the “plagiarism” thing is that Biden had been using the same quotes and crediting Kinnock in other speeches. He just forgot or overlooked doing it the one time it was videotaped. Maureen Dowd predictably waded in and claimed one of her first scalps.
What a joke. It’s not as if it was an academic stealing another’s work and seemed to have been an accident rather than a deliberate action. Certainly not the type of thing that renders anyone unfit for public service.
This post is the equivalent of physically gagging Amy Alkon so she can’t exercise her free speech rights. Only worse.
I just marvel that anyone would quote, let alone ‘plagiarize’ the Welsh windbag.
Not the most popular politician this side of the Atlantic. Particularly after his turn overseeing a very corrupt Brussels bureaucracy.
Y’know, I think Amy’s kind of “expired” as far as having any fun goes with her, because most of us are banned, along with a good percentage of the Tor network.
Speaking of plagiarism —
Exhibit A.
Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods. Jonah Goldberg, 2007.
Exhibit B:
Deliberate Regression: The disastrous history of Romanic individualism, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to twentieth-century fascism. Robert Harbison, 1980.
Compare and contrast.
Bela, how many Tors??!
You know, I don’t agree with what Alkon has to say, but I’d defend to the death her right not to have it repeated by others.
Whenever I need to fence a TV, I contact my literary agent.
I just marvel that anyone would quote, let alone ‘plagiarize’ the Welsh windbag.
Not the most popular politician this side of the Atlantic. Particularly after his turn overseeing a very corrupt Brussels bureaucracy.
We’re currently blessed with his daughter-in-law as head of the opposition around these parts. Sadly, she seems to be lacking even what little political talent he possessed.
D–
Me, too. Her death.
I know that words on a page are created by human sweat droplets. Literally. But T.V. sets?…I thought they sprang from frog tears.
This post is the equivalent of physically gagging Amy Alkon so she can’t exercise her free speech rights. Only worse.
Considering how much gagging Amy Alkon’s writing has made me do, I think it would be totally justified.
To laugh at Alkon is to hate free speech. To snigger at her look-at-me wardrobe is to kill small mammals. To note that her hair is pulled back a liiiiitle bit too tight and seems to be a do-it-yourself face lift is to end civilization as we know it.
let’s go poke Albert “Amy” Alkon with a stick
Just don’t mention gaffes.
I suspect now that most of us can’t
taunttalk to her directly, she’ll maintain an Ole Perfesser-style above-it-all-ness while continuing to say the crazy things she says.Because really, is that not what libertarianism is? A respectable, upright, exterior with an intellectual pretense, but really just the same old vile crap.
Of course, extraneous commas are central to my point.
Smut Clyde said,
August 24, 2008 at 2:01
let’s go poke Albert “Amy” Alkon with a stick
Just don’t mention gaffes.
I don’t think anyone wants her in our boat.
Of course, extraneous commas are central to my point.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m thinking a good old fashioned question mark might have been appropriate also…
mikey
“Kids?” “Us?” Again with this whole “pretending to be more than one person” crap. Notice how close together some of the posts are in this thread:
There’s no way that there are a whole lot of people out there with the same sense of snark, all posting so close together in time.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Sadly, No! is
All. One. Guy.
PROTIP for Crid:
The guy with all the symbols next to his name is ifthethunderdontgetya, a regular poster here.
Welcome to the madhouse, btw.
I hope you stay.
No, I really do.
Is she ever without a jacket? She wears all these plunging necklines and yet always with the jacket.
I’d like to start the rumor now that she has a conjoined twin growing out of one of her shoulders.
It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.
And furthermore I bet you’re a guy in the sense that Amy is a gal. In other words, not at all.
We are Sadly, No!
We are legion.
We are, unfortunately, deeply disturbed and aflicted with multiple personalities and an unfortunate case of bipolar ADD.
We are both 23 and 63. Simultaneously.
Now you might think it would be hard for one dude to be male and female, gay and straight, old and young all at once.
And it would be. But not for me. I am Sadly, No! Tremble in fear before me…
mikey (just another name)
Oh, and also…crid: Expect to be namejacked.
Looks like you already have, too.
Like I said, welcome to the madhouse. Enjoy your stay.
Mu-u-u-um, my other personalities are talking to themselves and keeping me awake. Make them stop.
Okay, you caught us. The reason why some of respond so quickly to each other is because we’re total losers who have nothing else better to do on a Saturday night.
Now what’s your excuse?
Is it true that instead of a firewall security option, the next upgrade of Vista is offering a Shit-moat?
Madness does not always howl.
Sometimes it is voice in your head in the still of the night, asking quietly “Is there room in here for one more?”
Madness does not always howl.
Sometimes it is voice in your head in the still of the night, asking quietly “Is there room in here for one more?”
It’s hard to tell from the context.
Do you know how accurate this actually is? If you don’t, you have great insight.
Use it well…
mikey
Notice how close together some of the posts are in this thread:
…..There’s no way that there are a whole lot of people out there with the same sense of snark, all posting so close together in time
Or…….it’s a popular site, with lots of readers/posters ,with few other like outlets for teh snark. :)?
OT, TERRORIST HOTDOG VENDOR ALERT ! – CODE: Chartreuse & 1/2
Just watching the Yankees ( non-shorterconfederate type)/Orioles game , and the hotdogs are in an Arafatist-type wrapper. Btw, are they really hotdogs, or Hezbollian Islamist sausages?
Poke her with a stick? Oh, come now!
What have you got against sticks?
I don’t know for sure if Andy Alkon banned me or not – it’s her circus, & thus it’s her choice – nor do I much care. I’d feel obligated to read her swill before I left a comment, & my retinas would prefer even pelican porn to the vagaries of such a heinous fate.
To be “fair” what she did there technically wasn’t plagiarism – but Christ, was it ever lame. Real writers like H.L. Mencken would’ve spat on these cut-&-paste-aholic hacks … & promptly mourned the waste of perfectly good spit. That must’ve taken her a whole 3 minutes to do … again, she’s a journalist like I’m a particle accelerator.
PS – can I be “mikey” or “Lesley” next? They’re kind of hardass-yet-lovable … whereas this “jim” persona is sort of verbose & mean. I bet their personas get way better fan-mail.
Gary seyz, “You should give up now and accept USA Power.”
But he forgot “You have no chance to survive. Make your time!”
There’s fan mail?
Damn. All I got was a rock.
I was told there would be groupies.
There actually ARE groupies.
But they claim to be selling cookies, and if you invite them in to smoke a joint you get arrested.
Groupies just ain’t what they used to be…
mikey
But, gahhh, y’all guys! Stop driving traffic to her site! She has to pay for bandwidth!
Didn’t McCain plagiarize that whole cross in the dirt anecdote?
Didn’t Reagan plagiarize fictional stories from Readers’ Digest when he talked about welfare queens?
Didn’t Amy plagiarize Stan’s older sister Shelley from South Park in calling everyone she doesn’t like a turd?
Oh, please – you do realize there’s a difference between taking someone’s words and speaking them as if they were your own, and posting a linked-to excerpt?
This has gone beyond old and boring – do you really have nothing to talk about but Amy?
Simba B said,
August 24, 2008 at 2:23
PROTIP for Crid:
The guy with all the symbols next to his name is ifthethunderdontgetya, a regular poster here.
What’s all this now?
Do you have nothing to do but talk to poeple who have nothing to do but talk about Amy?
The last Amy post was 5 days and 15 posts ago, Other.
Good try, though.
Yes linking to somebody who said the same thing better, to avoid the actual work of original thought , is old and boring . But… to do it to accuse someone else of plagarism ? That’s entertainment ! 🙂
Ahh, jeezus christ’s tits on a donut hole.
Now “plagiarize” is gonna be like “liberal” and “conservative” and so many other words that no longer have any specified meaning?
This is getting stupid. It seems that the overwhelming power of the intert00bz is to be able to change or completely obscure the definition of any given word in the course of a week.
But lack of meaning is meaningless. You can’t define meaning by destroying the meaning of the meaning of words. You end up with a coded, dogwhistle performance and if that’s enough to get this thing done, that’s it. I’m just not gonna play anymore.
Hell, I don’t have a solid retirement plan. Going into the hills with the guerrillas is every bit as good a solution for my future as push a shopping cart and panhandling at especially long stoplights.
And I bet I can get some funding from Hugo Chavez…
That’ll buy some tortas….
mikey
True. But as I recall, it wasn’t the Kinnock thing that led to his ultimate downfall. It was also discovered that he’d plagiarized an article for a paper he wrote while a law student at Syracuse University. I’ll grant you, neither one of those offenses on their own amounted to very much, but put them both together and you have a pattern, however weak.
But the best part of the whole affair was a joke by Johnny Carson: “Did you hear about Joe Biden’s new autobiography? It’s called Iacocca”.
Hey, if we’re all one person, I wanna be Candy – she’s so cool and clever and stuff. Can I be Candy? Huh? CanIcanIcanIcanI? Pur-leeze?
mikey, if you invite me in to smoke a joint, I’ll be your groupie.
My husband’s out of town, after all…
Don’t mind me.
Just hangin’ around.
Great. Soon as I show up, so do Amy’s testicles, and suddenly everyone’s got better things to do. Well, I’ll just sit here, hitting refresh, until someone comes back.
adb,
McCain also plagiarized a Wikipedia article on Georgia for a speech which some fascist bastard calling himself Charley pointed out to her in an obvious attempt to censor her. Being such a chivalrous gent I came to her defense but she did not appreciate my efforts and banned me with a most hilarious reply that included copying and pasting some old comments of mine here. Apparently she now googles every new commenter to see if said commenter has a SN. history.
Then some weirdo named Gums Brixton came along to mock her reply to Charley:
That one didn’t last and now Gums Brixton has also been banned.
I enjoyed the post, so I’ll be your guppy …er… groupie. 😉
I guess I’m kind of in teh Shoulderland, too, Mike. Or maybe teh Neckland. Geographical anatomy is hard.
I wrote a story about plagarism from my childhood. I’ve never told the story to anyone before and I’ve always been ashamed of my behavior, but it felt cathartic to come clean as I made a plea for tolerance for plagarists. Then Amy deleted my post, called me a troll and banned me.
I must be in the lower intestine land.
I’m in the land where America was invented and we never committed treason by attempting to leave the country and take our land with us. I come from stock on both sides who fought in the Revolutionary War.
Which apparently makes me a communist these days.
Who knew.
So, Amy Alkon walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, get outta my bar you fucking moron”.
I actually come from Communist stock. Seriously. My mom used to go down to the newsstand to buy her dad the Daily Worker and bring it home all folded up so no one would see. And one summer they sent her to Camp Wochica, which stood for WOrkers’ CHIldren’s CAmp. But the family was barely pink by the time I came along. (Except now we’re blue. How did that happen?)
The fact is that I no longer need to fence my TV, thanks to my Shit-Moat from Halliburton©.
My smile is stuck. I cannot go back t’yer frownland. My spirit’s made up of the ocean and the sky ‘n the sun ‘n the moon ‘n all my eye can see. I cannot go back to yer land of gloom where black jagged shadows remind me of the comin’ of yer doom. I want my own land. Take my hand ‘n come with me. It’s not too late for you. It’s not too late for me to find my homeland where uh man can stand by another man without an ego flyin’, with no man lyin’, ‘n no one dyin’ by an earthly hand. Let the devils burn ‘n the beggar learn, ‘n the little girls that live in those old worlds take my kind hand.
My smile is stuck.
I cannot go back t’ yer Frownland.
I cannot go back t’ yer Frownland.
Jennifer said,
August 24, 2008 at 4:07
I must be in the lower intestine land.
Beats the Wang, Jennifer.
Wait, that didn’t come out right!
Doctor: What you need is a good, long rest. I suggest Florida.
Homer: Florida? But that’s America’s wang!
Doctor: They prefer, “The Sunshine State.” (edit)
Geographical anatomy is hard
‘cept for Gary.
Yeah, it’s almost rightarmpitland , but just far enough north to qualify for the more glamorous Shoulderland. Near The Twilight Zone to be more specific . crid, that‘s how
Iwe can post so closely.Smut Clyde said,
August 24, 2008 at 4:20
The fact is that I no longer need to fence my TV, thanks to my Shit-Moat from Halliburton©.
Is it electrifried ?
Mwa ha ha, mf’ers!
Ah, The Gums of Brixton. Classic Clash song complaining about dentistry in London’s suburbs south of the Thames.
I don’t think anyone wants her in our boat.
No, but she’s welcome to paddle her own canoe (or dinghy) in my shit-moat anytime…and she’s even more welcome to capsize!
There’s no way that there are a whole lot of people out there with the same sense of snark, all posting so close together in time.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Sadly, No! is
All. One. Guy.
Sadly, no.
Sorry, Crud.
I hope McCain picks Cheney for VP. We need steady leadership in time of war.
Aw, what a shame. He picked Mittens instead of CrashCart McDraftDodger.
I hope you enjoy voting for your all-elitist ticket.
We apologize again for the fault in Amy’s blog. Those responsible for banning the people who have just been banned, have been banned.
No, but she’s welcome to paddle her own canoe (or dinghy) in my shit-moat anytime…and she’s even more welcome to capsize!
You mean, “crapsize”.
Heh.
“crapsize” ftw
I hope “Mittens” is chosen by McCain. It would be so much fun to see the godly call each other aposates.
Look, my post came a mere eleven minutes after Jennifer’s! We’re both all everybody aieee!
Shitmoats are the Jonah Goldberg of Lberal Fascism.
And that is central to Amy Alkon’s point.
Do what you want, but I’m not going back over there.
There’s this website of Russian dominatrices getting into low-speed car crashes.
Doctorb said,
August 24, 2008 at 5:26
Do what you want, but I’m not going back over there.
There’s this website of Russian dominatrices getting into low-speed car crashes.
Reminds me of a comment I read recently about something (VP pick?) being announced on cable news and hundreds of bloggers immediately writing BREAKING NEWS …
Crapsize it is!
You can floss us
You can brush us
But you’ll have to answer to
Oh, Gums of Brixton
So, Amy Alkon walks into a bar.
An obnoxious drunk looks over and says, “Hey, baby! Show us your tits!”
The bartender chimes in, “Don’t pay any attention to him, Ms Alkon. He don’t see too good anymore.”
I went to that site and wrote a story about an act of plagarism I committed in my childhood. I’ve never told the story to anyone before and I’ve always been ashamed of my behavior, but it felt cathartic to come clean as I made a plea for tolerance for plagarists. Then Amy deleted my post, called me a troll and banned me. Luckily no one can plagiarize each other here, since we’re all one shitmoat. My friends.
You know, for a snark-based community (in 2008 no less), I’d say a lot of the commenters are not so great at spotting when they’re being cleverly and entertainingly trolled. Crid was obviously being hilarious.
Or, perhaps more disturbingly, I have lost the ability to distinguish between funny absurdity and appalling absurdity, just like I lost the ability to tell what’s cute and what’s idiotic.
Also:
Alice: It’s nice to meet you, sir. I’ll never forget the speech you gave at my high school graduation: “I just drank two bottles of tequila, my wife doesn’t know I’m here. Any of you girls over 18?”
Duke: I still give that speech today.
I do love when you guys take down a total idiot.
Oops, I forgot. ObamaBiden! For real.
Beats the Wang
It beats the wang and puts it in the fucking basket!
The fact is I’m a toothless gay pornstar.
not so great at spotting when they’re being cleverly and entertainingly trolled.
You mean we have been giving pearl necklaces to pigs? I hate it when that happens.
Amy and crid are obviously the same person.
There’s no way that there are two people out there with the same stupid, both posting so close together in time.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: amy and crid
All. One. Guy.
Dammit, Me, now you’ve got me singing Lotion again.
Amy’s fast tonight- my comment that read “that’s exactly why I surround my teevee with a moat of dog poop” was deleted within 2 minutes.
Amy’s fast tonite…
Gums Brixton has also been banned.
By now, Amy has probably become sensitive to veiled references to Gingervitis.
“Amy’s fast tonight…”</i?
Himpes is a sore subject over there too.
Oh, I see how it works, post then wait 30 minutes.
Oh, I see how it works, post then wait 30 minutes.
The proper protocol to follow is to summon those with admin powers by posting Fetch Yon Waiting Post, abbreviated as FYWP.
It’s a small world, asshat.
Fetch Yon Waiting Post
Ah, so that’s what FYWP means. And here I thought it was Fuck You Word Press.
I learn something new every day . . .
Excuse me, is this the tweaker music thread?
FYWP.
oh noes!
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Sadly, No! is
All. One. Guy.
One man, and his shit moat.
to summon those with admin powers
Ensure you are using a proper ISO-2411 pentacle and shielded etheric adaptors. The protocol only supports ASCII — the results of using the Lloigar character-set are not defined or documented.
I have a feeling Amy Alkin is going to become a SadlyNo regular, topic wise, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, hilarity. On the other, stomach upset.
All that stands between us, and the total destruction of civilisation as we know it, is one man. And his shit-moat.
You know how no matter where you go in the world, Kentucky Fried Cancer tastes the same? This is also true of the neocon. You can be anywhere and they all sound exactly the same, say the same things. I’ve been duking it out on a globe and mail comment thread with Canuckistanian versions and these guys, to a man, are exactly the same as the Aces of Spadeses etc. you have down your way. The only difference is their addiction to the word “partisan”. For example, they will preface all their partisan comments with “I am not partisan.” And they will point the finger at people who don’t agree with them and shriek “you’re partisan!” It’s quite bizarre.
Hey, is that a Beefheart sighting upthread or is Alkon just happy to see me?
But the family was barely pink by the time I came along. (Except now we’re blue. How did that happen?
Don’t look at me.
Crid ma man,
listen up, you got it half right,
All of these good people and their number is legion are of one voice.
The half wrong part.
There are thousands of us.
Crap, I post only once ever six months.
But I sure do enjoy pointing out you and every one of your sycophant friends
to at least 6 people a day. Just for shits and giggles. Do the math please.
Crid ma man be careful, you are soon to be a internet tradition.
Fellow sadly naughts,
Its damn near 7 am in the Highlands of New jersey.
I barely made it home from one of the cultural centers of this fine state.
Crid. Yeah you, the real live girls here bring their laptops with them.
Want sad but funny?
The topic of discussion, no not your dominatrix blog mate. Not Biden,Nope, You.
Its all one guy! Really! Its just one guy!
Like flippin Santa, or the Mail Man..
Fuggit I am off to lily whites.
Still, this is priceless.
Thanks.
If Amy ever runs out of advice, she could go to work for an earth-moving service.
With that jaw-line, she’s got AT LEAST a half-yard bucket on her…
left what I thought was an ‘on-topic’ comment along the lines of , “Biden sponsored the RAVE act–wouldn’t a civil libertarian be more annoyed by this?” and was promptly deleted.
I look forward to her descent into cat-litter-huffing advice-rakshasi retirement. She reminds me of a character in Hindu mythology, Poothana, ho killed babies with poisoned nips.
You have to give “her” credit. There are more post in the comments from her crowing about deleting critics then anything else. That kind of energy can only come from crack. Which sort of explains the rest of “her” thinking(sic).
Pointless pedantry time: As far as I can remember the Kinnock speech Biden plagiarised was given without notes. So he didn’t actually ‘sweat it on to the page’.
Also Kinnock and Biden are good mates now, so I’d have said “Amy’s” take on the situation might be a bit off. I mean does this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00d1yqd (interview starts at 13.04)
Sound like a man talking about someone who nicked his telly?
I hate shit like that.
My response is usually to state that everyone is partisan in their own way.. there are no truly neutral people. Everyone has their own scheme, their own goal. (Unless they are just too stupid to scheme or connive.)
Then I start making guesses about their personal biases, and describing them. Gets them angry, defensive and into denial mode, which is basically my purpose.
Your mileage my vary.
All we are saying is give tonguejacking a chance.
And for that matter, there’s a shitmoat around here that needs tonguejacking.
I greatly look forward to the day when I can use ‘tonguejack my shitmoat’ in casual conversation.
Amy’s fast tonite…
Ahem.
Sunrise, one more flame-war to fight
Sky high, and six thousand posts to write
Don’t know how many names I banned
Had to — they dissed the name of Rand
Can’t get enough
And you know its righteous stuff
Goes up like prices at Christmas this-
Motorhead, you can call me
Motorhead, all right…
And they will point the finger at people who don’t agree with them and shriek “you’re partisan!”
When did membership of an anti-Fascist resistance movement become a bad thing?
…stealing the words somebody’s sweated onto the page…
The image of “Ms.” Alkon’s sweat-drenched pages is not pleasant to contemplate first thing on a Sunday morning, amongst the complacencies of the peignoir, and late coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, and the green freedom of a cockatoo.
I just marvel that anyone would quote, let alone ‘plagiarize’ the Welsh windbag.
Hey, the Welshman was one of a few who stood-up to Maggie. And the irony is, she was taken-down by her own party. The torries…..they eat their own kind.
The torries…..they eat their own kind.
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It’s a dirty job, etc.
I just love the attention, so thanks. By the way, the book in the photo of me is actually Elmore Leonard’s The Hot Kid, which is a terrific story set in the days of Pretty Boy Floyd: http://tinyurl.com/TheHotKid
Here’s the comment I left for one of your tiny trolls on my own site (not that you guys give a shit about the truth, as it tends to get in the way of your reason for being, leaving tiny comment turds on the sites of people you disagree with:
[Clif adds: Hey, Amy, thanks for the continuing entertainment. When you quote large portions of someone else’s work, even with credit, that’s stealing too, and “stealing” is what you were all huffed up about. But, if you don’t think it’s stealing to simply copy 2/3rds of someone else’s work, as long as credit is given, then we will gladly post large chunks of your book here to save people the trouble of buying it. Anyway, thanks for dropping by. You and your commenters are always welcome here even if that’s a privilege you are afraid to reciprocate at your site.]
Plagiarism is taking someone else’s ideas and claiming them as your own.
Biden has never done that. Ever.
Amy, you’ve NEVER had an original thought…
Hint: Stating a different opinion than the one you hold isn’t “censorship” either, Amy. Since we’re gonna get all technical about words and what they mean and shit.
There’s no doubt alkon’s traffic has benefitted from all the S,N! mentions but I doubt she loves the attention. Pointing out alkon’s obvious intellectual ineptitude is hardly something most people seek out.
The again, alkon might be into the abuse…
Bragging about your IQ is rather childish. Changing someone’s name to an insult, on the other hand, is maturity itself.
If Amy squeezes out one of her screeds in a forest , and there’s no one there to read it , is it still gibberish?
If Amy squeezes out one of her screeds in a forest , and there’s no one there to read it , is it still gibberish?
Let’s just put it this way: It makes the trees even dumber.
For folks following this thread with RSS — I’m looking at you, Bubba — I’ve added my riposte to Amy’s comment at the bottom of her comment. The dog and I are off to the dog park now, so y’all behave, okay?
The dog and I are off to the dog park now, so y’all behave, okay?
Awwwwwwwwwwwww Clif, do we have to??
My Lady and I were just conversing on this subject last night. Everyone is capable of being stupid. In fact people are stupid on a regular basis. It’s just the ones who live an unexamined, un-self-aware existence that cannot correct themselves. Faced with being called out – all they can do is double down on teh st00pud.
Amy Alkon said,
August 24, 2008 at 16:27
So now you’re stealing Amy’s name you asshole?
I repeat. All. One. Guy.
Snowwy – as I’ve said before, I count the realization that there’s way too much stoopid in the world to account for just on the part of stupid people as the moment I became an adult.
Some people never grow up.
When you quote large portions of someone else’s work, even with credit, that’s stealing too
Technically, it is a copyright violation, although this is probably within the ‘fair use’ exception.
The underlying issue is intellectual honesty. Since Biden used the Kinnock post with correct attribution on several occasions, it seems unlikely that he was stealing Kinnock’s work product when he used it without attribution on ONE occasion, apparantly in error.
To claim this makes Biden a plagiarist is simply dishonest. Using nearly all of a WSJ piece as a blog post does not make Amy a plagiarist, just a lazy intellectual free-loader.
When even Glenn Reynolds thinks the plagiarism charge is BS, anyone but a lying freeloader should know better than to run with it.
(Cross posted to Alkon’s site in a pointless gesture of liberal fascism)
Amy, its never wise to go around impugning the intelligence of others when evidence of your own stupidity is so readily available, you insipid glibertarian hack.
I submit the following sterling example of your glowing intellect from your site (emphasis mine):
As for McArdle, I read her stuff from time to time. Girl power? Female solidarity? Uh, no…actually, I find her thoughtful and interesting.
I rest my case.
Interesting. I am still banned after making one very mild post, and I noticed that Amy is now posting the IPs of all the ‘trolls’ she chooses to delete and ban.
Is that some sort of invitation to hack those IPs? I don’t know if you can do any damage just by posting IPs, but this seems like a provocation far in excess of a few scurrilous comments. What is the appropriate response to such malkinization?
So I leave a couple of quick notes (now deleted) over at crazy Amy’s site about how posting IP addresses in an attempt to “out” posters is really, really bad netiquette – on par with posting unredacted email addresses – and “Crit” the attack poodle leaps into action and deposits an 8 bullet list (shorter):
1. Even if it is an evil thing to do, Amy is too nice to be evil.
2. Everything I know about the web I learned from my Grandma, and she never mentioned that.
2a. Big corporations and big government are doing it so it must be OK.
2b. On Amy’s board it’s her fucked up way or the highway.
3. Anonymous posts consume precious bandwidth (and how is “Crit” contact info?).
4. Please tell me all about your wild sex life.
5. For being super smart, Amy is a big dummy.
6. Sadly, No! is just one guy posting like a maniac – look at the timestamps!!!.
.
I too am beginning to think “Crit” and Amy are the same person. The alternative (a sad, lonely, desperate man, pathetically defending Amy against all comers) is too horrible to contemplate.
Heh! I said “comers”.
Hint: People who brag about their IQs are usually doing so in the context of trying to convince you they aren’t idiots — and usually because it’s quite obvious that they are.
Also husbandless childless busybodies who have all kinds of opinions on husbands and children are usually doing so in the context of trying to convince you they aren’t idiots — and usually because it’s quite obvious that they are.
Gotta admit, I really like the idea of all us SadlyNauts being one person. I wonder if, some day in the future, some similar crew to ours will be able to directly link their brains over the internet and actually become one person… an ultra-sarcastic hive mind. I think it could be really cool.
So thank you, Crit, for making me think of that!
Why do you all care so much about how someone looks? And “bad Netiquette”–grow up. If you can dish it out, you can take it.
What’s odd about the one individual who is Sadly, No, is his or her inability to agree on the most basic things, from scotch to brussels sprouts to Ralph Nader to defensive handgun caliber.
Is there some kind of psychological term for a person who bickers among himself?
‘Cause that would be like eleven kinds of crazy…
mikey
Wear a keffieh?
Note Amy, Rachel and Crid’s posts.
Still there.
No IP address listed. No post deleted.
My my. The raw courage on display by this Sadly dude makes me tingle all over…
mikey
Because I wish people would care about how I looked. Amy, Amy, Amy!!
I dunno, I’m still lukewarm on the idea. After all, according to Sherlock Alkon’s mad super-sleuthing skills, that would make us all Gary Ruppert.
Oops, “Crid”, not “Crit” (can’t keep the sockpuppets straight).
The only way I know to have your post last more than 5 minutes over there is to do it in the wee hours of the morning while Amy is asleep (or “out to the movies” or whatever the cover lie of the minute is) in hopes that “Crid” will include at least part of it in his moronic riposte.
That, or start your own Project Hoover and suck up to Amy like the rest of her yes-men.
Well, schizophrenics and those with Tourette’s tend to bicker amongst themselves.
Let’s see. The IP address that the webserver logs when I visit a site is owned by comcast. It is actually the address of my gateway, as my internal network is NATed.
Now sure, if you had a way to get comcast billing information and match it to their DHCP server logs, it would be simple to get my name and address.
Otherwise? Most of these clowns don’t even actually know what an “IP address” is or how a packet header is constructed.
So fear not, Sadlys – er, I mean me….
mikey
In some sense isn’t it true that Sadly No! is just a collection of names which “intellect jacks” us every time we post? Or did I just blow your (our) mind? Dude, I’m having a very hard time keeping a lid on the metaphysical popcorn that ubermensch Crit has unleashed on us here. If we’re all one guy, and Amy Alcon is posting here.. ergo, sumo, ipso cum laude… I AM Amy Alcon!!!!!1!!
In the future my posts will reflect that fact, My Friends.
Now sure, if you had a way to get comcast billing information and match it to their DHCP server logs
You sweet-talk the geeks!
Hold on…
How the fuck is this Amy bitch posting here, while blocking on her own site?
Of all the cowardly…
I had been engaged in a nice little smackdown of a couple of dorks on that blog, and next thing I know – POOF – I’m unable to post a response to one idiot’s taunt.
They’re crayvin, I say! CRAYVIN!
Well, schizophrenics and those with Tourette’s tend to bicker amongst themselves.
Oh, fuck myselves!
One is the loneliest Sadly that you’ll ever do . . .
Dagnabit, I’ve been busier than a dern squirrel in a walnut tree* over the last couple of days – I go back to school tomorrow, the kid went back to school Thursday and starts his first-ever real grownup job tomorrow – and now I’m going to miss A Return to Shitmoats because I have to go do laundry.
The fun never ends.
*I don’t know why I’m suddenly talking like a character in a McMurtry novel. It must be something I ate. Sprouts of one kind or another, perhaps.
How the fuck is this Amy bitch posting here, while blocking on her own site?
Of all the cowardly…
She can’t afford to have her little sycophants see her stoopid exposed. (Sorry for the image that may have produced.) She can’t tolerate dissent in front of her idiotariat, but she’s pretty sure that most of the somewhat limited folks on her site will be scared to come over here and so she feels it’s safe to blargh! on Sadly, No and satisfy her masochistic urges without fear of loss of horse-face over there.
That’s my theory, at any rate. This is also standard RWA behavior.
By the way I cleverly salted one of the above comments with a line not my own!. This is central to my point, and has never been done with such care and thoughtfulness before.
have fun!
. . . WP loves me.
What nine-letter word describes someone who believes people are out to get ’em?
Paranoiac?
Observant…
I have a feeling Amy Alkin is going to become a SadlyNo regular, topic wise, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, hilarity. On the other, stomach upset.
It is kind of funny how obsessed she is about getting a regular kicking over here, not too much else to do on these lonely nights, Amy?
then we will gladly post large chunks of your book here to save people the trouble of buying it.
She has wrote a book, say it aint so….
As for me, I steal all my snark from old Sadly No! posts that everyone has forgotten.
The fact that each one is eerily on target just shows how powerful the SadlyNo! hivemind has become…
Dunno much about these here InterTubes, but if Sadly, No! is only one person, where did all the IP addresses come from that Mr. Alkon is posting at his site?
I posted this and it was deleted so quickly I just about got whiplash:
She’s Johnny-on-the-spot with the delete key, I’ll give her that.
Amy’s site is like an internet elephant burial ground – where posts go to die.
#
Rachel Cohen said,
August 24, 2008 at 18:07
Mr. Cohen: As the only S,N!-er, I would refer you to many previous threads wherein I have had numerous heated discussions with myself over this very subject.
You apparently are unfamiliar with this word “netiquette.” This seems to be a common problem with rightwing bloggers, what with the constant deletion of comments and the misapprehension of such potentially litigious words as “plagiarism” and “privacy” and so forth.
Shorter Alkon:
“Turd, turd, turd, little turd, and turd. I’m not a racist. Turd.”
And the “T” stands for “Turd.”
That’s not entirely fair. They misapprehend a lot of words, not just potentially litigious ones.
Thank God for Tom Wilson
Mr. Cohen: As the only S,N!-er, I would refer you to many previous threads wherein I have had numerous heated discussions with myself over this very subject.
Some of myselves are more looksist than others.
I built a shit moat around my IP address (which is not in Beverly Hills, btw). You know, to keep out the no-goodniks and ne’er do wells.
I’d love to see Amy Alkon and Chelsea Handler get into it. My money’s on Chelsea.
Are all conservatives nitwits or just the ones who know how to write?
Based on the very sound logic that anything a wingnut accuses a liberal of doing is something they are doing themselves in an even more blatant fashion, I think it’s quite clear Crid is Amy’s sockpuppet.
Actually, I doubt she’s creative enough to think of sockpuppetry, but it does make me wonder how many of Amy’s commenters are Crid using other names.
I’d never ask for any ips to be revealed, but a look at whether certain numbers are identical might prove worthwhile.
hey everybody!
go to http://www.manipulator.com and check out the front page (you have to refresh a few times to get past the chicken…it’s a long story.) there will be a series of these. enjoy. i tell you first because i love sadly no and all its denizens, mostly amy aikon and gary ruppert, obviously.
We are all a Sadlynaught now.
Oh wow. I spend a week wandering in the wilderness (otherwise known as Croydon), and I get back to this.. Amy going strong, still ranting about the same shit, still throwing out the same accusations.
Bit of a one trick pony eh?
When you’ve always wanted a pony, and this is the pony you’ve been given, you ride it.
(never look a gift pony in the mouth)
There are some things money can’t buy.
Fortunately, John McCain isn’t one of them.
For all your corporate needs, use McCain!
There are some who know how to write?
(Too easy?)
McCain Veep suggestion.
Jingling keys? Waht?
So I post this on the post that Amy ripped from the WSJ:
One of the first things that the Saint Ronald Reagan did when he took office was terminate the tax incentives that the Worst President in History Jimmy Carter had enacted for Solar Energy, It would be amazing if RWers new any history at all. Additionally, Reagan negotiated with terrorists and Carter did not.
That was deleted despite being factually germane to the original post about the lack of forward thinking 30 years ago and a judgement that could be supported by the facts. Yet CarrotTops Ugly Sister whines about censorship? What a sad red turd she is.
Holy fuck, Crid is real?
Doctorb, I’m afraid Irony has gone from ‘Completely Dead’ to ‘Disappeared.’
luv you guys, hate Amy, but this is a non-starter.
She cited her source he didn’t.
As an English teacher I respect the difference.
Besides you can’t top shit moat!
here’s a little experiment (courtesy of WHOIS and Amy’s little IP “offering”, IP’s suitably anonymized). This SadlyNo fellow/gal really gets around!
**.**.***.** Verizon – Tampa
**.***.**.** Verizon – Newark
**.***.***.*** Comcast – Texas
**.***.**.** Comcast – Maine
***.***.**.*** Telus – Canada
**.***.***.** Comcast – Virginia
**.***.**.** Charter – Connecticut
**.***.***.*** Atlanta
**.***.**.*** RIPE – Netherlands
**.**.***.** Australia
***.**.***.** Waterloo – Canada
I just love the attention, so thanks.
Yeah we know, Amy. Narcissism defines you.
SN is horrendously popular and gits a lot of hits which is why your stats are now as jacked up as your shit moat.
(Say, is pulling your hair back that tight a substitute for Botox injections?)
I just love that she’s over here lurking and reading all the comments, like Ann Althouse would do.
I thought of maintaining a little “banned by Amy Alkon” map, with IP’s starred by location, but I guess she’d just give up on posting the IP’s – unless we compile our own list?
In fact, Crid should realize that every single post on the Internets is all by the same guy. THE POSTS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
Amy bans all of our commentary on her site but comes over here to read same. How lame is that?
Since she’s reading and we infuriate her, I think I’ll add fuel to the fire.
You know, that red hair is going to be a bitch when you’re older and the gray starts coming in. Like now. Or yesterday. Or whenever it was you grew old.
You must be at the salon every five minutes for touch ups.
you must admit, however, that she is a cunning linguist.
Hey. Long time reader, first time commenter.
Which is funny because my name insinuates I’m blind.
Anyway, anyone see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NrQ36Djf2E ?
can one become a cunning linguist by tonguejacking a shitmoat. hyphens are unnescessary in the hivemind. are questionmarks also.
When will Amy, The Plagiarist’s Worst Enemy, finally give proper credit for her “goddess” schtick ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr
Shame, Amy. Shame.
Nothing makes me feel as happy as realizing that Amy goes onto the comments here and reads this shit. Priceless! I only wish that Ben Shapiro, that retard chiropractor Mellisa Clouthier, and, especially, that idiot adjunct English instructor from Georgia would visit, read, and realize that deleting comments on their pages is pointless. People will google you out.
It’s really a testament to the Right that their brightest lights have an equivalency with the commentors on this blog (present comapny excluded, of course). Their people can’t even compete with comments. Jesus.
Hate to interrupt the Alkon bashing – I really do. Well, actually, before I go OT, let me add my own – Amy Alkon can go fuck herself. She’s getting a lot of practice with all the sock puppets she’s got commenting at her site.
Well, anyways – it appears we’ve done a wonderful job reminding everybody that John McCain was a POW. via Josh Marshall, even MoDo thinks that maybe POW-y McPOWs-alot has gone to the well to often:
Dan Someone said,
THE POSTS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
I call plagiarism. Unless it was intended as an hommage.
Anyways, it’s not totally lost for JiSM3. He still has Michael Scherer. And if Cincinnatus ever swings by this place let me say that you sir, know how to rub their noses in it.
Look at me and tremble!
Hey, don’t laugh, they got my Amy on Maher’s program.
How come everybody always says my Amy has a “ButterFace”?
His campaign is cheapening his greatest strength
I have nothing but envy for McCain’s personal lack of involvement or culpability whenever his campaign fucks up. I’ve tried it myself — “My campaign came home last night after 8 beers with vodka chasers and trashed the kitchen trying to make a black-pudding fritatta” — but the Frau Doktorin is not wearing it.
Apparently my campaign has also been visiting p0rn sites on the WWW. Rest assured that the responsible minions will be disciplined.
flashing the P.O.W. card to rebut any criticism, no matter how unrelated
The McCain campaign has made itself into a Pavlovian dog.
The fact is, I am advice columnist and Rambler driver. Amy Alkon is merely my beard (heh). Everytime you Sadly, Pathetics write “tonguejacking the I-5 shitmoat traveling 1.6 miles in three hours”, you are plagiarizing ME and violating my copyright and censoring me and extravantagley squandering my bandwidth. Stop, cease, desist (I own ‘desist’ too).
It’s really a testament to the Right that their brightest lights…
wouldn’t light up a dark room.
Any Facebook users, here? First, I’m pleased to report that I have more Facebook friends than Alkon has, and all of them like me. Second, go take a look at one of her friends, one Christian Arthur Lindke of Los Angeles, graduate student, Claremont ’08. If crid exists, he looks like that. It would be irresponsible to speculate otherwise.
Clem
I call plagiarism. Unless it was intended as an hommage.
All are free to worship and adore me.
Amy! They told me you were reading this board! Can I come home now?!? I promise to stay out of sight!
I call plagiarism. Unless it was intended as an hommage.
The French call it “fromage.”
(WP apparently is opposed to “frottage”)
…or maybe not
Half the people in my carpool are opposed to frottage. Imbeciles.
…maybe Ben wouldn’t have had such a bad time in his traffic jam if…
I am IMPORTANT to these people. I find that kind of amazing.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at August 24, 2008 7:46 AM
Wow, is she textbook self-involved or what? Bill Maher used to do a segment back in the PI days where he’d give out a Get Over Yourself award. Amy is gunning for the trophy like she’s Miramax or something.
When we tire of her, and we will, she’s going to substitute Merlot for milk with her morning Wheaties.
These people?
She means me, myself, and I, right?
The pretense that they care about “netiquette” is about as solid as their pretense that I’m a racist because I dared think and speak critically about somebody who has black skin.
Posted by: Amy Alkon at August 24, 2008 12:04 AM
Right, Amy. That was the criticism. Keeping it real, I see.
…unless, of course, they had black skin by choice (see Al Jolson)
A man, a plan, a shit-moat — Panama!
Damn, this ‘palindrome’ business is harder than it looks.
Incidentally, I intensely dislike the word ‘palindrome’. They should be called emordromes.
Pwned – & too dim to even know it. Sweet!
Yes – that is an open invitation to both spammers & hackers.
Not to mention a means to identity theft, of a kind much less playful than this site’s nym-jacking.
Isn’t “she” a classy little filly?
If your IP is static, I’d highly recommend that you NOT flame this idjit unless you’re behind a proxy … otherwise you may be in for a very bad day at the orifice.
Want to know how to repay a fucktard who outs the IPs of anyone who nails them on their idiocy?
More (LOTS more) of the same trolling, crapflooding & sundry abuse this imbecile so richly deserves. Tolerance ought not be extended to those whose reply to dissent is abusive dropping of dox – this is the Interwebs-equivalent of a installing a bullseye tattoo on one’s forehead. Copypasta is also highly egregious, for someone that has to pay for bandwidth. Make said copypasta relevant to the post & you’re farting through silk while the sun shines. The proxy is your friend, & will make both “her” & “her” internet detective sad little campers. If Mrs. Ed wants to keep riding the whaaaambulance so much, feel free to give the malevolant little twit something to REALLY whinge about. Anyone who finds a dangleberry like McArdle “thoughtful and interesting” deserves whatever the Interwebs can dish out.
Banning those you disagree with = weak.
Banning ANYONE who also posts on a site that outs your room-temperature IQ = emo.
***ALL YOUR FLAMES ARE BELONG TO US***
…and the palindrome of Bolton is not “Notlob”
Anyway, thanks for dropping by. You and your commenters are always welcome here even if that’s a privilege you are afraid to reciprocate at your site.
Has Amy unbanned us all?
Strange, no one here has banned her or her Crids. Why does she think she’s banned when she’s freely posting here?
Just spitballing here, but I wonder if we could somehow recruit Jon Swift to volunteer for Mission: Retard Hoover, whereupon someone (him) posing as a feebleminded yes-man, infiltrates the enemy’s (Amy’s) blog commenting area, keeping them constantly off ballance via a smoke screen of ambiguous wingerisms, narcissistic glibertarianisms, and naked servile flattery – plus a dash of racism if necessary. We need someone with staying power over there to on a full-time reconnoiter mission so as not to miss one iota of the fun.
Is it obvious that this getting banned shit is killing me?
Amy’s having conniptions!
She looks more and more reasonable all the time.
Lesley, that was Clif’s addition to the comment. Why Clif added to the comment rather than posting a comment I do not know, nor do I know what an elephant was doing in my pajamas.
Anybody attempting to hack Amy might want to wear a Hazmat suit. Something squirrelly is gnawing her brainstem.
ManOnBlog, I tried that for a while (as DanPat) but it got borturbing, a weird combination of boring and disturbing.
oh oh oh, I take it back then doctorb. thought that was amy talking.
Check this guy out from the Globe and Mail comment thread
right off his nut. sad.
nor do I know what an elephant was doing in my pajamas.
I tried standing quietly in the corner of the room, but people kept calling attention to me.
Doctorb, you’re way ahead of me then – and thanks for taking one for the team.
Even if she can’t do any genuine damage by publishing IPs, she believes that she harm those rude-posters. If she’s that vindictive over “nonsense comments”, can you imagine a fourth-date breakup? Or if someone got promoted over her at the pennysaver she works at? Or when Regnery rejects her book? Or when her imaginery assistant gets a better imaginery scholarship to imaginery graduate school?
anyone who posts IP addresses merely because their comments offend or annoy her is a lame duck.
imaginary.
It was Reg Anderson’s incessant whinging that must have done it.
Try reading that hissy fit in a W. F. Buckley voice. Why is the epitome of winger talk some kind of prissy turn-of-the-century prim and precise finicky thing?
Got banned for two posts:
Post 1: “…”
Post 2: “…?”
That reminds me, I once had an elephant in the corner of the room. It stayed there for 6 months, and all that time I thought it was one of the cats. In retrospect, I should have been more suspicious about its lack of interest in saucers of milk, and about its complete failure at catching mice.
That reminds me, I once had an elephant in the corner of the room.
Others can hear the creaking springs if you use the bed.
IP and email address posting are nuclear options. It screams “retaliate, my minions!” Can’t she see how petty, vindictive, and desperate such asymmetrical warfare appears?
If she flies off the handle that easily it’s not really all that shocking that she had a rather solitary childhood. Kind of creepy thinking she maybe has a soul mate out there, walking among us.
Another gem from the Globe thread
Minds like his are running Canada.
Use caution when speaking around RB. He misses NOTHING!
Dear AA’s Breasts:
How come everybody always says my Amy has a “ButterFace”?
No, not a ButterFace, a Pramface. (Also known as the chav’s facelift).
Amy is to wordsmithing as poutine is to healthy food.
Amy. Hon. Listen to yourself:
Why would anyone go over to the WSJ website, the six or seven readers that you have plus the SNers who come over to make fun of you, when you post practically the entire editorial on your blog?
The appropriate usage of another person/entity’s work is to quote no more than three paragraphs (generally, less than a hundred words) and then to urge people to go and read the rest for themselves.
Yes, this was a nitpick post by Clif, and thank god for that! He could have picked on something substantial and really reamed you.
When I see a TV without proper measures to secure it, I take it. This does not make me a criminal, it just means that I value the TV more than they do (after all, I am risking my priceless freedom!). Since I value it more, and I end up with it, this only proves that the market for TVs is efficient and resources have been properly allocated.
*snif*
Ayn Rand must be so proud of you!
Using nearly all of a WSJ piece as a blog post does not make Amy a plagiarist, just a lazy intellectual free-loader.
Ah! She’s a welfare queen!
“All that stands between us, and the total destruction of civilisation as we know it, is one man. And his shit-moat.”
Sorry, no time to post now…digging. And scooping.
So long, gotta trot!
Oh, and a pre-emptive FYWP for good measure.
You, Clif, are a reprehensible tease.
I read this entire thread in detail, and there wasn’t the least bit of Amy Alkon boo-ka-kay in here.
I demand my 45 minutes back. And some Danish goat porn.
Okay, then, “Amy,” when and if you publish another book…
…we’ll include it as part of enhanced interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib?
When Joe Biden was using Neil Kinnock’s speech (and, admittedly, not attributing it that one time), John McCain was voting (at least five times) to keep supporting apartheid in South Africa.
Which event from twenty-odd years ago do you think is more important?
My goodness, it’s like a non-stop fountain of hilarity over there: her latest post on how awful Joe Biden was twenty years ago is made up of 6 lines of her own text and about 3 and a half pages of articles from Stale. I suppose this is some of that “stress-free scholarship” we’ve been hearing about.
“Stale” is not a typo but the articles are from Slate. Still, where’s the added value?
amy is a fool. She’s a very confused person. she can’t tell if she’s
a liberal or conservative, man or woman, hysteric or insane, and so she acts very strange. she hates to be censored but censors anyone who disagrees with her addled ravings. She’s a hypocrite that’s for sure.
she’s also as bad a writer as you can be but self promotion has at least helped her make a small living.