I Plagiarized this Post

Good Tuesday, Stroock's Books CoDominium. There's nothing like a Tuesday after a Sunday cardio/strength session and a Monday weightlifting session. 

The Mets impressed us last night jumping out to a 6-0 lead against the Dodgers and winning 7-3. The series is tied 1-1 and now heads to Shea, sorry, Citi. The packed-with-national-and-international-stars Dodgers are big bullies, let's see what they can do against a team that's not afraid of them. We think Dodgers in 7. Let's go Mets! F-A-N!

At the Meadowlands we see the Jets are the same old Jets, losing the game via an Aaron Rodgers interception on the final drive. 

Reading of events in Israel, our sense is that the Netanyahu government will strike Iran and then perhaps try to wrap up the war via negotiated settlements with Hezbollah and what's left of Hamas. The Biden regime is putting a tonne of pressure on Israel to open up Gaza. Feels like Israel is on the backfoot for the moment. 

So it turns out Kamala is a plagiarist. Why are we not surprised? Back in our professorial days we failed students who thought they could cut and paste whole term papers. It was easy to catch. 18-year-olds don't write that good. Neither does Kamala. Note, it is not hard to not plagiarize.* 

Someone has, from time to time, run this blog through something called PlagScan. We know this via Blogger's web traffic data. It's possible something here or in one of our books isn't properly attributed. But we've never cut and paste whole blocks of text and passed them off as our own. 

We've borrowed and worked with other's ideas. [What's the difference?-Ed] The difference is these are influences. Look at To Defend the Earth. One see's the influence of other alien invasion stories throughout the novel. These include War of the Worlds, Footfall and Independence Day. We even mentioned our influences in the intro, thank you Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The World War 1990 series wouldn't exist without Tom Clancy. The Day After and Nan Randall lay the cornerstone of The Great Nuclear War of 1975.  Ideas just don't come from nowhere.

We're not quite ready to get optimistic about the election, but it does seem that the Kamala campaign is repeating the worst mistakes of failed Dem presidential campaigns going back to Dukakis. JFC. What do we make of the polls? If the pollsters are right, then we will have a close race. If the pollsters are wrong, given that they've under polled Trump voters for nearly a decade now, then Trump is going to win comfortably. Kamala's people sure ain't acting like they're winning.  Exit question, did the pollsters finally figure out how to poll Trump voters? 

Morning Rory is just about done. On to an Australian family?