I’ve just received good news that a website which had plagiarized one of my pages, Global Internet Marketing, has now taken down the offending copy from a page after receiving a certified letter threatening legal action if they did not.

While I detest the need for lawyers in a situation like this, sometimes you have to break out the big guns.

Now if I can get this UK site, Futurenet Designs, which basically lifted an entire page verbatim from my site, to take down their stolen materials…

What to do when someone steals your content.

Google’s DMCA violations …

Dr. Thomas Szasz is one of the leading critics of psychiatry, having openly been a critic since the publication of his book “The Myth of Mental Illness” in 1961. Dr. Szasz co-founded the Citizens Commission on Human Rightsin 1969. Here’s a four minute video about psychiatry in which Dr. Szasz talks about the ways in which psychiatric labeling is no more than stigmatization, and how drugging of children is poisoning them, not treating them.

The Los Angeles Times ran an article last week from, of all persons, a UCLA psychiatrist and philosopher named Dr. Irwin Savodnik. In it Dr. Savodnik details how the American Psychiatric Association has been inventing psychiatric “diseases” since 1952, by voting them into existence at their annual meetings. In 1994, the manual (DSM-IV) that details these diseases had grown to 886 pages and listed 365 conditions, which is a 340% increase in the number of “diseases” listed in the manual during the last 42 years. Are that many more people “mentally ill” or have psychiatrists just been stretching the …

Love this quote from Mark Twain:

“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”

It’s been busy – we finished this site in early December: Student Loan Consolidation (Note – site has since been taken down). It was a site I made for an old friend, Jeff Anderson. It has some complex PHP-based forms that I tried to make impervious to hacking. (It being understood that such forms, when left unsecured, are often used by hackers to send out s-pam .)

I’ve been working …