Month: July 2006

Plagiarist today, gone tomorrow

Pixel, Rick, Here is **the columnist**‘s response to my asking if he was the original author of the list for the Wal-Mart column … Unfortunately, I found the Wal-Mart list posted on Web sites dating to 1999 … One Web site claimed the list began circulating in 1997. … That seems to cast doubt that…

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I will not mess with my database

I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my database. I will not mess with my…

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An eye for a joke

I caught a plagiarist yesterday. A paid, local columnist (and retired journalist, no less), who included a list of things to do to pass the time while in Wal-Mart: When a guy goes to Wal-Mart with his wife, he has to invent things to pass the time because it takes hours for her to shop.…

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