Remainders: Fake It If You Got It!

• A political party has really sunk low when their best candidate doesn’t even, you know, exist. [Logged Hours]

• How Ann Coulter Got Crazy, Got Evil, and Got A Book Deal. [Rude Pudit]

• In the quiet moments, George Soros dreams of being Teddy Roosevelt. [Rocketboom]

• The Mexican presidential election as a Menudo concert. [Cruel Sommer]

• The death estate tax must be eliminated! The aristocracy of idiot sons can’t be delayed! [The Swift Report]

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Is This A Ploy To Get Our Attention?

Well, Fox News, congratulations — you got it.

We don’t know what’s worse: that they ripped this off shamelessly from someone else, or that the someone else was Drudge.

Fox News
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Killed in Bombing Raid [Fox News]

Earlier: Drudge’s Unyielding Good Taste

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Second-Best Book Recall This Year (After Kaavya Viswanathan)

Sometimes books get pulled due to massive and widespread plagiarism. And sometimes they get pulled for more amusing reasons. Consider what happened to Leaving Women Behind : Modern Families Outdated Laws:

There is a misspelled word in the Foreward by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas. On page vii of her brief 2-page Foreword, Senator Hutchison’s 2nd of 5 paragraphs begins:

“Despite these remarkable changes, and the major progress women have made in obtaining equality in the workplace, our pubic policy institutions have not kept pace.”

The word should have been public. Can you imagine the discussions between the senator’s staff and the publisher when they found out? Can’t help but feel for the people whose job it was to proofread that piece at both ends.

Oops! Some poor staffer probably got canned over this. But maybe Senator Hutchison deserves part of the blame.

Even if some staffer drafted the foreword, it was only two pages long — the Senator should have proofread it herself. But that Senator Hutchison, she’s “spacey.”

Book recall [Amazon]
The book recall mystery solved [Amazon]

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