Scathing Online Schoolmarm agrees that plagiarism is a very bad thing, but grilling seems to her an overreaction.
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OTOH, assuming the nominee survives, SOS has doubts about his capacity for logic (a capacity for logic, like a capacity for independent thought, being a good thing in an education minister). When confronted with his spectacularly large plagiarism portfolio, the nominee said:
“(The theses) contain information that is widely available,” he said. “I don’t think that can be called plagiarism.”
This comment put SOS in mind of the Doonesbury collection titled “But the Pension Fund was Just Sitting There”
July 9th, 2014 at 7:32AM
Grilling over alleged plagiarism is a money-saver in the summer season, but getting it lit isn’t easy.
July 9th, 2014 at 8:01AM
Mr Punch: LOL.