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Quick update on the Craig Shirley affair: NYT Public Editor agrees Rick Perlstein was smeared.

August 12, 2014

A quick update for those who’ve seen my previous post (and followup) about the false charges of plagiarism levied by

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The Craig Shirley / CIA / Wikipedia Mystery.

August 11, 2014

Update (2020-11-16): Craig Shirley has taken us full circle now. As described in detail in the Wikipedia article’s Talk page,

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According to Craig Shirley, Your Choices are Plagiarism or Amnesia.

August 5, 2014

So, a friend of mine just got accused very publicly of plagiarism by author Craig Shirley. The charge is completely

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Comment to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality.

July 15, 2014

(This is what I wrote in the comment I just sent to the FCC from battleforthenet.com. Please consider submitting your

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English to live by.

March 15, 2014

I finally found an example of how ending a sentence with a preposition in English is not only not wrong,

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Support Snowden all the way, New York Times.

January 2, 2014

In an unsigned editorial today, “Edward Snowden, Whistle Blower”, the New York Times is needlessly weak: … Considering the enormous

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Lucky in 2013.

December 31, 2013

It’s the last day of 2013. I’ve thought a lot this year about how lucky I am: I get to

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Healthcare.gov, why do you taunt me so?

December 22, 2013

The new healthcare.gov web site sure looks great. Under the hood, though, it’s apparently implemented with Bronze Age web development

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IRC away messages.

December 10, 2013

I set my IRC client to keep logs. Among other things, that means I have a record of all my

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My Contempt Knows No Bounds: The Starbucks “Come Together” Petition.

October 13, 2013

This petition was on a table by the doorway at a Starbucks near my house, during the recent government shutdown

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