Comments on: Girls Gone Wild Founder Files Civil Suit

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:11:29 +0000

Again, thanks for your comments. The article was spell-checked. It didn’t catch the meds and I had no reason to believe otherwise since the information was from a reliable source. My apologies for the errors, which were changed earlier today.

But I stand by the idea that breaking the law while out of jail (as well as while in jail) plus failing to review your own tax returns for a multi-million business are not behaviors that I would consider smart.

By: KDLNeal

KDLNeal — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:48:46 +0000

The final remark seems unnecessary. Anyone experienced with life should have learned that people who are very adept at one thing are seldom equally adept in other aspects of their life and even in that area of success do still make serious blunders. For example, the choices made by the girls in the videos are not necessarily indicative of their entire lifestyle – but also not necessarily non-indicative. The same holds for spell-checking a medication versus fact-checking a story.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:06:41 +0000

Thanks for pointing out the errors. For all that they’re apparently common, I’m not familiar with either med – having neither used (nor abused) either.

I do fact check my stories and can advise that I got the ok on the facts from someone who was very involved with this story. But I do regret the spelling errors on the meds (making the change now).

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:23:43 +0000

This could be a pretty convincing article, but when one can’t be bothered to look up the correct spelling of two (very common) medications this guy supposedly abused, how can we be sure the rest of the article has been fact-checked? (alprazolam… lorazepam)

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By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:52:11 +0000

Oh don’t misinterpret… I don’t think being stupid and being a passive victim are the same thing… But the presence of alcohol at these Girls Gone Wild events combined with their ages says to me that the decision to flash cameras so that someone else can make money off of their breasts isn’t necessarily well thought out.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:33:25 +0000

Come on, Tax Girl, haven’t we progressed beyond the “women are passive victims” stage of gender equality?

Those duped girls seemed to be having a great time . . . so I’ve heard. Wink, wink.