Bob Dylan is at it again: plagiarism.
Such is the latest charge levied against the septuagenarian singer-songwriter. His long-awaited, late-delivered acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature he was awarded last year — a disquisition on the nature of art and literature, with references to Moby Dick, Homer’s Odyssey, and All Quiet on the Western Front — apparently contains portions that match, almost word-for-word, the Sparknotes entries for Moby-Dick. It’s an amusing image: Bob Dylan, hunched over his computer late at night, the room lit only by the screen display of a website not typically visited by anyone over the age of 22 ...
Bob Dylan is at it again: plagiarism.
Such is the latest charge levied against the septuagenarian singer-songwriter. His long-awaited, late-delivered acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature he was awarded last year — a disquisition on the nature of art and literature, with references to Moby Dick, Homer’s...
So Sean Spicer says he’s not sure whether President Trump believes there was concerted Russian “interference” in the 2016 presidential election. I’m not sure whether I believe there was,...
Yesterday afternoon, Minnesota officials finally released the full video of the traffic stop that cost Philando Castile his life. It’s a tough video to watch. I’m embedding it below, but beware,...
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In a previous era, the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student, at the hands of the regime in North Korea likely would have been considered an act of war. On January 2, 2016,...
We are in love with the apocalypse.
Doomsday thinking justifies anything. If Armageddon lies just beyond the horizon, then all measures are worthwhile in staving it off. Armageddon simplifies...
Courtesy of our friends over at Decision Desk HQ, here are the live results from the special elections in both GA-6 and SC-5.
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