The first 10 songs in my current playlist:

Supposedly, Monica Crowley (who btw seems like a generally vile human being) plagiarized some portions of her book What The (Bleep) Just Happened.

Here’s the evidence.

Again, this is the sort of plagiarism that no one outside of academia gives a crap about. It’s meaningless. I don’t feel like unpacking this fully sociologically at the moment, but it springs from the academe’s apparitional and aspirational notion that all ideas should be novel, springing ex nihilo from one’s uncompromisingly dazzling intellect.

This is not how the world works. This is not how the world has ever worked. This is not how the world will work any time in the future. In fact, the world is moving ever further away from this state of being.

Crowley’s book was not an academic tome where it is and should be important to cite all sources. It’s a damn pop politics book. Who cares if she assembled it from cutting up a bunch of old magazines, tossing the slivers up in the air like graffiti and then re-assembling the shreds on the bathroom floor.

Plagiarism most of the time is a senseless charge designed to dispose of political and ideological opponents. This is absolutely no different, despite my antipathy to Crowley herself.

People who “resist” Trump who did not also resist Obama are not on the side of right; they are just authoritarian in a different direction.

Please don’t misinterpret this for supporting Trump. I’d rather never have heard his name.

But if you don’t recognize that Obama was just a continuation of the George W. Bush regime then I don’t know what to tell you, other than that you are an ideologue.

I know, I know: Obama was cool. Does that matter when your family is getting drone-bombed? Murdered?

Your resistance is sad and pathetic because it has no meaning and no goal other than, “Go, team, go!”