I had never heard of Liskula Cohen until the other day, when she won a lawsuit forcing Google to reveal the name of the anonymous blogger who had called her a skank and an old hag on a blog almost nobody except Liskula Cohen read. Ms. Cohen was actually pretty lucky to be called a skank [...]
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Posted 24 August 2009
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Tagged: anonymity, blog, Carrie Prejean, fame, Liskula Cohen, old hag, Perez Hilton, Robert Stacy McCain, Rosemary Port, skank, Skanks of NYC
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Joy [...]
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Okay, first off, I do not read fashion blogs, and until just now, I had no idea that something called “shoe blogs” even existed. I was reading this article at National Review Online and a link on page 2 (why I clicked, I don’t know; probably just to avoid folding the laundry another five [...]