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Thanks to Ms. Cynthia Yockey for the tip, for starters. Dr. sipmac always wanted to analyze what was wrong with Paul Maršić, so that he went straight ahead to the I write like website, used a recent post about the french nagging police to let the computer program compare his writing, and voilá:

I write like
James Joyce

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Later, sip used another post, the one with Jorge Luis Borges. Guess what the website said?

I write like
Leo Tolstoy

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It looks already like Maršić's banking account is going to skyrocket this month... and If sip adds a few more paragraphs...

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Cory Doctorow

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Well, that is a heckuva website, as stimulating as egosurfing, I'm quite sure. BTW, will in the meanwhile the real Paul Maršić please stand up?

Beware! The French nagging police is watching you!

By Paul Maršić

Domestic violence is a serious matter. Domestic violence is no laughing matter. You just tell Nadine Morano, junior family minister of France, she’s making a travesty of domestic violence by praising the latest attempt of the French National Assembly to regulate human life and human nature: “we have introduced an important measure here, which recognizes psychological violence, because it isn’t just blows [that hurt], but also words”.

What she is referring is that now in France is unlawful by decree any kind of verbal abuse between spouses (or domestic partners); perpetrators would be facing up to three years in prison and 92.000. French lawmakers and bureaucrats (ever wonder how the dreaded word originates?) are looking to proscribe badmouthing in blogs and trolling in web forums next. It’s just the natural logical progression.By attempting to micro-regulate human behavior this way, the state is risking more loss of respect from its citizens and effectiveness. Do you think this is law applicable? Define verbal abuse first. Did your spouse threaten with beating or killing you? Well, I’m completely sure that when a citizen threatens another, is breaking an already established law. See, this is a futile effort, a superfluous law. There is a lot of serious nagging in every marriage. The law already contemplates that when people in marriages are fed up with this (mental cruelty), they can always call it quits (it is already called divorce).
This puerile law tries to coerce people to “behave properly” in a most impractical way. It is like trying to outlaw stupid behavior with a bill. And with people like the junior family minister of France, who doesn’t recognized that the road to hell is paved with good intentions or realize legislature must be full of common sense, well, it is worth a try.

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