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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Where there’s a small lie, there’s a big one

Now this is the kind of fact-checking I like to see. Patrick Nielsen Hayden exposes liars lying about book sales.

One of the main themes Patrick and his wife Teresa always seem to be exploring on their blog could be called the broken window theory of politics: where there’s a small lie, there’s almost always a big one. Catch the small lie, catch the big one.

Let’s also add: any author would be happy with 4402 book sales since March.

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Great site, but on this page the New York Times restaurant critic Craig Claiborne, is spelled Claiborner.  In John Mariani’s Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink it is spelled correctly.

Why are you posting that here? It has nothing to do with this entry, this web site, or me. Also, the URL field in these comments is for YOUR URL, so nobody can see what you’re talking about.

For everyone else, his URL is http://www.barrypopik.com/article/137/negimaki-or-negimayaki, which is Barry Popik’s web site, for which I handle only technical issues, not content.

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