don’t doubt it for a second
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Last weekend I was writing a blog post that began with the following:
This makes me a bad herd animal, but the people I trust are the people who doubt. Doubt is honest. It is the natural state of being. If you do not doubt, you are pretending or you aren’t paying attention. If you do not doubt, you are a fool.
Then I see that Bill Maher offered eerily similar wisdom at the end of a recent New Rules monologue:
Doubt, for lack of a better word, is good. It suits human nature. Doubt is what makes you careful. Doubt is what makes you open to change. Doubt is why Eddie Murphy took a DNA test.
So Maher included a joke*, and I didn’t, but this was otherwise clearly plagiarized. I demand recompense. Nevermind the fact that the unposted blog post in question is … as yet, unposted.