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!El Gato Negro! @ 80

?Can we start calling heem “Daffy a’ Pugh”?

?Por favor?

I have it on fairly good authority that his name is David Alan Hughes and he was born in Waco. He’s about as Welsh as Liederhosen.

I have no proof of that, but I think it would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.

Yeah. David Hughes. He changed it because the Welsh version sounds ever so much more cooler (sic), so he thought he could sell more SF/Fantasy books.

I’m not sure it helped much – I don’t think, for instance, many copies were sold of his novelization of the Doom videogame… (Yeah. really. It’s as bad as it sounds, and no, I didn’t buy a copy, he gave me one. )

Ah, so he’s like Orson Scott Card, but without the talent. (Card is so frustrating — there’s a brain there, but his inexhaustible instinct for cognitive dissonance, fueled by his Mormon male desire never to relax his death grip on his white male privilege (because in his zero-sum mindset, giving women and minorities rights means losing those rights yourself), means that his writing gift has been suffocated under decades of ever-less-rational rationalizations.)

!El Gato Negro! @ 80

?Can we start calling heem “Daffy a’ Pugh”?

?Por favor?

I have it on fairly good authority that his name is David Alan Hughes and he was born in Waco. He’s about as Welsh as Liederhosen.

I have no proof of that, but I think it would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.

Yeah. David Hughes. He changed it because the Welsh version sounds ever so much more cooler (sic), so he thought he could sell more SF/Fantasy books.

I’m not sure it helped much – I don’t think, for instance, many copies were sold of his novelization of the Doom videogame… (Yeah. really. It’s as bad as it sounds, and no, I didn’t buy a copy, he gave me one. )

Per Jeff in the comments over at tnh, in a second correction, NYT’s blames Cox:

A front-page article on Thursday about bloggers who are covering the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. included erroneous information from Robert A. Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, about the coverage of federal trials by independent bloggers. Gene Borio, an antitobacco activist, received a credential to cover the trial of the federal government’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry in 2004 and did so; the Libby trial is not the first time independent bloggers have covered a federal trial. (Sheldon L. Snook, the court official who issued the credentials for both trials, said he was unaware that Mr. Borio was a blogger until after the credential was issued.)

Bold is mine.

Perhaps the Times could print two papers..
One could be Correct Times
One could be the Incorrect Times
Between the two you will get the truth I think

(Just as an aside, many of the people who regularly post there have pictures that make them look kinda, well, funny, too. Could be true about some of the firedoggies, eh?)

A front-page article on Thursday about bloggers who are covering the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. included erroneous information from Robert A. Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, about the coverage of federal trials by independent bloggers. Gene Borio, an antitobacco activist, received a credential to cover the trial of the federal government’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry in 2004 and did so; the Libby trial is not the first time independent bloggers have covered a federal trial. (Sheldon L. Snook, the court official who issued the credentials for both trials, said he was unaware that Mr. Borio was a blogger until after the credential was issued.)

Bold is mine.

Sorry if this has already been noted, NYT’s issued this correction per it’s

“For Bloggers, Libby Trial Is Fun and Fodder”

A front-page article yesterday about bloggers covering the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. referred imprecisely to the role of Robert A. Cox, president of the Media Bloggers Association, in securing credentials. Mr. Cox negotiated access for his association, which was the first blogger group to be granted credentials to cover the trial. He did not negotiate on behalf of firedoglake.com and other blogs that received their credentials later.

QUETTA, Pakistan – A suicide bomber killed 15 people — including a judge — after blowing himself up inside a courtroom in a southwestern Pakistani province that has seen intense civil conflict for years, police said.

It’s pretty darn cold here in central Jersey, only 16 degrees, but the sun is shining. Thanks Marion, I’ll have a cup of the English Breakfast. I brought a cranberry walnut loaf, so help yourselves.

Many thanks to TRex for bringing the ad feminem attacks on Amanda and Shakespeare’s Sister to FDL’s front page, and exposing the ugly, thug character of the “right-wing scream machine,” as Rachel Maddow likes to call it. I sure hope the blog swarm of complaints about Donohue’s 501 (c) (3) makes a difference [and makes his life as uncomfortable as he made life for Amanda and Shakes].

Stay warm, stay kind.

Work for peace, every day.