Rhys Morgan wrote a blunt post about the Burzynski Clinic’s unproven antineoplaston therapy. Unfortunately they couldn’t respond with peer-reviewed articles proving the efficacy of their treatment, because there aren’t any. So Marc Stephens, acting as a “representative” for “Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, Burzynski Clinic, and Burzynski Research Institute” (but never actually verifying he’s a lawyer), emails Rhys some libel threats. While Rhys displays remarkable maturity, Marc demonstrates his professionalism by threatening to contact Rhys’ school, and including a photo from Google Maps of Rhys’ house(!). Rhys documents the conversation in “Threats from The Burzynski Clinic”, which makes for hilarious reading.
Welcome to the interwebs, Marc Stephens & @BurzynskiClinic, you just got mothereffin’ PWNED.
One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
A quote by T.S. Elliott from “Great artists steal the future” by Brian Ford, a precursor to Picasso’s famous “good artists copy, great artists steal” line.
Magnitude 6.3 earthquake, Christchurch, 22nd February, 2011
The first photo was taken moments after the quake — clouds of dust from damaged buildings swirl around central Christchurch, with the tallest building being 25 floors high. The full size version is frightening (photographer unknown)
I love the second photo. Ganbarre Christchurch! More than 100,000 tonnes of mud from liquefaction will have to be removed… (photo by Peter)
