This book is bound in human skin. The practice of

binding books in this way, called 'anthropodermic

bibliopegy', was not uncommon at the time of the French

Revolution. Someone has suggested that this practice be

revived and that the unacknowledged borrowing of another's

work should be bound in the plagiarizer's own skin.

Ben Domenech is said to be strongly opposed to this idea.

When he Googled one of the speeches Ben Domenech

had written for him, Senator Cornyn couldn't figure out

why 'Al Franken' kept showing up in the search results.

Someone has captured on film the precise

moment when Ben Domenech was being spat

out of the blogosphere like a watermelon seed.

"I don't know Ben Domenech, but I've always

found him impressive," said John Podhoretz.

Asked how he found someone impressive

he didn't know, Mr. Podhoretz said he didn't know.

This portrait of Ben Domenech had been scheduled

to be added to the permanent collection of the

Home School Hall of Fame. But, at the last moment,

it was discovered it was really a picture of P. J. O'Rourke.

It took raw courage, but Ben Domenech showed it when

he fearlessly plagiarized P. J. O'Rourke, earning as a result

a Real American Hero Patch.

As Ben Domenech surveyed his new domain

at the Washington Post, he worried that someone

might discover that 'patronization', a word he had used

in his blog's inaugural entry, wasn't in the dictionary.

In his testimony today before a House Committee,

Ben Domenech took the Fifth when asked

if his new blog, 'Red America', was actually

a Communist front.