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Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Warning: Humorless

Gregory Johnsen

I am attempting to maintain good humor, but as a warning to those who read this blog: please properly cite the material you gain from this blog. Much of what I post is public knowledge, but if you are using my posts, ideas or translations in published material do properly cite Waq al-waq. Otherwise a team of trained lawyers – ok it is just Nash, but still he is a very smart lawyer and also very mean – will hunt you down.

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