Lazy minds are the devil’s playground at 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera

Enigma editor and publisher Dave Weinthal got busted today. He was caught plagiarizing in an article he wrote in November, 2004. I’ve never been a regular reader (I’m more of a Pulse kinda grrrl) but I’m still pretty damn disappointed. Maybe I’m hyper-aware of this issue (my spouse is an English professor), but I should think that anyone who’s been to college has learned that plagiarism doesn’t pay. You WILL get caught — especially in the age of Google, Lexis-Nexis, and amazon.com’s search inside the book. So why would a supposed professional be so reckless and/or stupid?

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Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an circa-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, G-Dog (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). We have one kid (that we know of) -- a daughter, Emmie, who recently graduated from college and moved out on her own (keep your eyes open and you might spot her at some point, twirling joyously right before she tosses her hat in the air).

I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. G-Dog and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.

This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant, arugula-eating, progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist (yes!! bring on gay marriage, give us a single-payer, completely socialized health care system, and replace the stupid war on drugs with legal, regulated, uber-taxed marijuana -- and some very handy industrial hemp!).

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