When innocent citizens asked about unemployment last week at the town hall presidential debate on Long Island, would Mitt Romney...

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For the second year in a row, one of the winners of the Washington Post’s contest for child poets has been outed as a plagiarist. Credit the poem “Horrible. Just Horrible,” printed in the “KidsPost,” to Shel Silverstein. Ombudsmen Deborah Howell notes that the youngest reader to notice that a dead poet’s work had been resurrected by today’s youth was 10-year-old Hannah Engle. I can o...

On April 1, Lawyer and PR rep J. Peter Segall took out an ‘in memoriam’ ad in the Washington Post for long-time friend, former ambassador to Morocco and still very much alive man, Edward M. Gabriel. It was the April Fools equivalent of skydiving - a dangerous stunt with little payoff which only becomes a horrifying joke when the gigantic accidents that could happen do happen. And, in that, ...