Maureen Domenech

When I was a graduate instructor, I taught a course once in which a student plagiarized enormous sections of a take-home final exam; the plagiarized sections, hilariously enough, came from one of the texts I’d actually assigned for the course. When I confronted the student about the infraction, s/he claimed to have “slipped into a trance” of some kind — those were his/her words — and typed out about 500 words from the book without the slightest comprehension of was going on.

I mention this only because I find MoDo’s explanation for ripping off Josh Marshall to be several orders of magnitude less convincing.