Gauguin Painting Attacker Aided Lee Hamilton, Jane Harman

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not so much shady i think, as LAZY.

toob of VA 9:08AM April 12, 2011

Agreed. Why in the F' would you ref' someone else's work, but then also fail to give us a way to easily find it?! That's shady, man!

reader of HI 6:18AM April 12, 2011

Exactly what I was thinking. Thanks for the links.

Pete of IL 12:04AM April 12, 2011

You mention documents posted at The Smoking Gun, but you don't link to the posts. Why on earth not? You are writing for the web. If you want to have any credibility at all, you must link to your sources. Just naming them does no one any good, and it makes me distrust you.
Here are the links you should have included:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/gauguin-attacker-angered-very-homosexual-art-453091
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/face-behind-name/susan-burns-no-fan-paul-gauguin-854307
And here's a piece on the importance of linking to sources: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/if-you-dont-link-to-primary-sources-you-are-d

Dan Wineman of OR 11:18PM April 11, 2011