Plagiarism is an ethics issue, full stop.

Ah, yes, Maddow is the one who looks bad here.

Most politicians have speech-writers...if his speech-writers are so lazy as to be plagiarizing from Wikipedia, that says a lot about him and the kind of team he has behind him. I don't doubt the man lacks the gift of oration, but he should be able to hire people who can write a political speech without lifting things…

I have a straight girl crush on Rachel Maddow, and I am seriously blushing at that picture.

I could not be more in love with her.

I wish dueling was legal so he could fight Rachel Maddow too. Rand Paul is kind of lucky its not legal.

yay for liberalism!

Exactly, words can't describe how much I love JK Rowling and hate David Cameron and the rest of the Tory Party.

There is truly nothing NOTHING I don't love about this woman.

I think I read somewhere that she lost her status as the first author to amass a billion dollars from her work while still alive, by giving so much of it away. She's a pretty prolific philanthropist!

I've loved her interviews about being on the English equivalent of food stamps and will will take no shit if someone (interviewer etc) tries to insinuate that she really didn't need it.

I think this is a very natural human response (actually, a neurobiologically sound human response) and we should be thankful that there are still people in the world who haven't lost their sense of connection to the basics - that adults are here to care for children. I'm thankful she had this impulse, and thankful…

And then she channeled those impulses into starting a charity to help those children. Rowling seems like the kind of person who strikes a good balance between feeling things and doing things, and I respect that she seems to feel a responsibility about her wealth.

jkr always struck me as somebody who hasn't been corrupted by her wealth at all. she's just super eager to give back, because she knows what hard times are like. real stand up gal.

Oh for crying out loud. Really? I'm sorry, you have taken this far beyond any reason. I have said quite explicitly that I do not in fact think consumerism is a more important issue than racism. It is not what I think, it it is not what I meant to express, I chose my words poorly. If your need for purity is so great…

Funny I thought it was the BS meter.

It's a crazy meter built right into her face. When her whole face turns red, the crazy is at its peak!

My point is that, in any story that mentioned an expensive handbag, you would see comments like this. Making a snarky joke about spending money on a handbag does not imply that they think racism is okay. I've seen the Jezebel overreaction machine enough times now to mostly find it funny at this point. Yes, the actual…

I love how one guy/girl makes some half-assed, flip, snarky comment about expensive handbags that I would expect to see on almost any story dealing with expensive handbags, and Jezebel basically goes completely nuts and screams that they're a sociopath and a racist. Never change, Jez.

Why would you assume that? You see no differences between a $2500 purse, a $250 purse, a $25 purse, or a used one for $2.50? You live in a very simple world if you don't. You're retort reminds me of those who pillory environmentalists by saying "How come you live in even a 1200 square foot house? Why do you use a…