Published in the LA Times!

I didn't discover it until today, but I was published in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday.

Background
Just before beginning this blog, I briefly entertained the hobby of publishing satirical edits on Conservapedia.org, a wacky alternative to the supposed liberal bias of Wikipedia. Most of them were promptly deleted, but on occasion I managed to get some edits to stick.

So:
On Sunday, the LA Times printed an article on Conservapedia. Contained within that article are several quotations from articles on the website. Included amongst them was a quote pulled from the article on George W. Bush:

"And the state of the economy under President Bush? Much better than the "liberal media" would have you think: "For example, during his term Exxon Mobile has posted the largest profit of any company in a single year, and executive salaries have greatly increased as well."

With fewer than 12,000 entries and typos galore (the misspelling of Mobil above; the mayor of L.A. is referred to as "Anthony Varigoso"), Conservapedia isn't about to supplant Wikipedia — which boasts 1.8 million articles in English alone."

These fingers first wrote that sentance about five months ago, and somehow it survived long enough to be discovered by a Times reporter. How you like them apples, world?