Plagiarist President Busted for Putin Others' Words in His Thesis

I love Jay Rosen's suggestion at PressThink that the Washington Post, in the wake of the Ben Domenench debacle -- which has finally resulted in an admission of guilt -- should have an

open competition on the Web to be the next political blogger at post.com, but instead of hiring one "red state" person and leaving it at that (a strategic error in my opinion) Brady should say that three slots will be filled over the coming year. One from column right, one from column left, and a third voice that is definitely neither of those, which could mean libertarian--or not.

In spite of my politics I'd recommend the "third voice" be not libertarian but fascist. And I'd like to nominate Russian president Vladimir Putin -- who has just been accused of lifting his university thesis and inflating his degree by a few degrees -- to fill that role.

[Link via Hit & Run.]