Book review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe (by yours truly)

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Book review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe (by yours truly)

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“Copy” copy update update

Gee, guess what? Megan McAfferty ain’t buying Kaavya Viswanathan’s explanations or apologies.
A piece in today’s Washington Post, McAfferty’s people don’t accept the young author’s claims of “unintentioally” reproducing what some might consider significant chunks of scenes, ideas, and words that seem to have found their way into Viswanathan’s novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got [...]

"Copy" copy update update

Gee, guess what? Megan McAfferty ain’t buying Kaavya Viswanathan’s explanations or apologies.
A piece in today’s Washington Post, McAfferty’s people don’t accept the young author’s claims of “unintentioally” reproducing what some might consider significant chunks of scenes, ideas, and words that seem to have found their way into Viswanathan’s novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got [...]

The White House finally makes it official…

From this point, all information given to the media will be known as a “Snow job.”

According to the AP report:
President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration.
Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush’s father, [...]

The White House finally makes it official…

From this point, all information given to the media will be known as a “Snow job.”
According to the AP report:
President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration.Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush’s father, [...]

“Copy” copy update

Seems apologies and promises of revision are not enough in the case of Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard author accused of lifting passages from the works of Megan McCafferty.
According to an April 25 Publisher’s Daily e-mail:
Random House spokesperson Stuart Applebaum called Viswanathan’s explanation about how she came to use passages from McCafferty “at best disingenuous and [...]

"Copy" copy update

Seems apologies and promises of revision are not enough in the case of Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard author accused of lifting passages from the works of Megan McCafferty.
According to the April 25 Publisher’s Daily e-mailing:
Random House spokesperson Stuart Applebaum called Viswanathan’s explanation about how she came to use passages from McCafferty “at best disingenuous and [...]

Oh, you mean that “COPY” copy…

The New York Times ran a story by Dinitia Smith today about Kaavya Viswanathan, a 19-year-old author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life (Little Brown), who is “accused of plagiarizing parts of her recently published chick-lit novel….” The Harvard sophomore “acknowledged … that she had borrowed language from another [...]

Oh, you mean that "COPY" copy…

The New York Times ran a story by Dinitia Smith today about Kaavya Viswanathan, a 19-year-old author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life (Little Brown), who is “accused of plagiarizing parts of her recently published chick-lit novel….” The Harvard sophomore “acknowledged … that she had borrowed language from another [...]

“Yes, Sir, Mr. Johnson, Sir!”

“…And don’t make me come back and have to tell you again. Got that, runt?”

"Yes, Sir, Mr. Johnson, Sir!"

“…And don’t make me come back and have to tell you again. Got that, runt?”

Mad Dog, Indeed

     I was listening to Mike and the Mad Dog, a talk program on WFAN, an sports talk station in New York City.
     Today’s topic was the Duke lacrosse team. Chris Russo, aka, Mad Dog, was going off on how all the evidence — or lack thereof — points to the players’ innocence.
     One guest, who identified himself [...]

They drove him to drink.

Washington Nationals’ general manager Jim Bowden was arrested for DUI during the team’s Florida trip. Given the situation in Washington — lousy team, no ownership, indifferent fan base — the question was not “if,” but “when”?

Mad Dog, Indeed

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspI was listening to Mike and the Mad Dog, a talk program on WFAN, an sports talk station in New York City.&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspToday’s topic was the Duke lacrosse team. Chris Russo, aka, Mad Dog, was going off on how all the evidence — or lack thereof — points to the players’ innocence.&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspOne guest, who identified himself [...]