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Open Letter to the Jerkface Crap-head who Stole My Posts for His Own Blog

Oct 31 2008 Published by under not-so-secret notes, out of joint

Dear Plagiarizing Asshole,

Seriously, what the hell? I know it was a pretty long shot that I would find you, but thanks to Copyscape, I did. I know I’m a pretty good writer, and you did select some of my finer moments, but I’m at a loss. If you are, as you claim to be, a 40 year old man, I would think you know better than to steal intellectual property. You probably do know better than that. Which just makes the whole thing that much sadder. I am sad that you think your own words are so insufficient that you need to steal mine. I do put a bit of work in them, but you probably knew that.

I’ll give you a bit of credit. You did take down the posts that I pointed out were plagiarized from my site. And knowing as you did that you hadn’t plagiarized only my work, you did the honourable thing and deleted your entire blog archive after I left my comments. To start over, you said. Because, you said, your blog had been unfocussed and you wanted to shift themes. Or some garbage like that. You could have emailed me to apologize. But you didn’t. Because you’re probably just mad you got caught. Which is what makes you Fuckwit of the Month in my records.

There really isn’t much more to say about it. Except that I will leave you in my del.icio.us bookmarks as “Plagiarizing Asshole” and I will be checking in on you from time to time. Not just for myself, but for all the people I know you plagiarized. And I have to say, couldn’t you have been a little more discreet than to plagiarize recognizable images from fairly well-known bloggers? I shake my head.

With a big old fuck you,

Jess

EDIT (01/11/08): It seems the offending party has deleted his blog account entirely. I can’t decide whether I’m happy that it’s gone or upset that I can’t keep my eye on him anymore. Probably both.

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Just one day

Sep 09 2008 Published by under out of joint

I want to go one fucking day without hearing the phrases climate change or global warming.

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Truth depressing and irrefutable

Aug 28 2008 Published by under explanations and things left unsaid, out of joint

Some people will not get it. No matter how many times I say it or how tiny I slice it. I’ll always feel like that one grain of sand trying to fight the ocean.

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P.S.

Mar 04 2008 Published by under opinionation, out of joint

Big thanks to the 59 percent of my fellow eligible voters in Alberta who completely failed to show up at the polls last night. I would be much less pissed about the return of Tories if more than a handful of people had bothered to get off their couches and participate in the democratic process.

I will not entertain any bullshit about not knowing the candidates or what the parties stand for. It takes five minutes to look up a party’s website and get a basic understanding of the people running in a riding. Also, if you’ve been living in the province, you know if you like how it’s being run or not. If you do, vote for the incumbent. If not, vote for anyone else.

I will also not entertain bullshit about throw-away votes. Voting is not gambling. It’s deciding who you want to represent you, and since we live in a democracy, that means other people are free to disagree with your decision. And yes, since we’re dealing with more than two parties, the winner often has less than 50 percent of the vote. That doesn’t mean the system is broken. That’s just how math works. And often, the winner takes into account the spread of votes within their riding and uses that to guide their representative decisions.

The results of the election, while really not what I was hoping for, are much less irritating than the lowest voter turnout in Alberta’s history. Why do we bother with democracy when people in this province, and really, in this country, don’t seem to care one way or the other who is making the decisions? Let’s just hand it over to the politicians to decide who’s next in line (oh, wait…). Whether you realise it or not, to rail against the injustices of tyrannical societies and then fail to participate in the most basic democratic processes is an egregious form of hypocrisy. For no other reason, you should vote because you are free to do so in a blessedly fair election.

So I’m disappointed and angry. I had better hear 59 percent less complaining about what the government is doing (or failing to do) for the next four or five years.

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