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Via Matt Welch and Via JLR
A Plagiarizing Story That Will Make You Dizzy: Jack Shafer tells the tale, which involves Hollywood mob goon Anthony Pellicano, Schwarzengroper scoopmeister John Connolly, Luke Ford, New York Times L.A. correspondent Bernard Weinraub, Cathy Seipp, and even, if tangentially (or hyperlinkerly), my darling wife.
I blame Mickey Kaus. Who, by the way, has a must-read extended riff on the 2004 election metaphor of Pedro Martinez (I kid you not), and another on Bernard Weinraub.








