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Ferrets and Pron

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As you may have noticed, I’m rather fixated on this Cassie Edwards thing, and Smart Bitches in general.

Newsweek has picked it up, and one of the people that she has “allegedly” plagiarized has spoken up. The guy isn’t an expert on Native American life. She’s opted to “allegedly” steal (covering my tush, thanks!) hotter material than that.

He’s a ferret guy. She stole from a ferret guy. How can someone in good conscience steal from a ferret guy? His name is Paul Tolme and the write up is here at Newsweek. He’s a wildlife journalist and wrote an article about how the US government was harming the small black-footed ferret population in an attempt to kill prairie dogs.

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Plagiarism Part II

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Not what I wanted to write about today (I guess I’ll get to that ‘later’), but here’s an updated statement from Signet regarding the Cassie Edwards thing:

Our original comments were based on Signet’s review of a limited selection of passages. We believe the situation deserves further review. Therefore we will be examining all of Ms. Edwards’ books that we publish, and based on the outcome of that review we will take action to handle the matter accordingly.  We want to make it known that Signet takes any and all allegations of plagiarism very seriously.

It’s found here, and was apparently emailed to Smart Bitch Sarah.

Somehow I missed it when I was first checking out their site.

I can’t give the Smart Bitches enough kudos. Seriously.

Who knows what will happen, but they’ve seriously, seriously, seriously impressed me.

Go, go, gadget girls!

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Plagiarist, Plagiarist, Wherefore Art Thou, Plagiarist?

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I couldn’t resist. I just couldn’t. Especially when I looked at a certain MySpace page, but now I’m getting ahead of myself.

For the record, Henry VI is still glaring at me.

Yesterday in class, Professor F-Dawg (so named because he drops the F-bomb so tenderly) gave the advanced comp class a presentation on plagiarism.

I wish I could say I didn’t learn anything, but it wouldn’t be true.

But Doc F-Dawg showed us this website in class: Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books. Now, given that Mike and I spent some of our paper-writing time devising a means to teach a collegiate class on slutty romance novels, this struck my fancy. I thought about Mike right away.

Now, the premise behind the site is that smart chicks like smart romance novels, and so the authors of the sites weed the good from the bad.

Now, that’s not the reason F-Dawg showed us this in class. It was because Cassie Edwards, romance novelist extraordinaire, was accused of plagiarism.

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