LinuxWorld Editorial Machinations

James Turner writes "The editors of LinuxWorld Magazine have been fighting a quiet war with the publishers (Sys-Con Media) for half a year, trying to get hack-journalist Maureen O'Gara purged from their site. Well, with O'Gara's recent vile attack on Pamela Jones (which I won't give any more free publicity by linking to), enough is finally enough. In my latest blog, I've basically told Sys-Con that it's either her or me. I suspect, given the amount of page views O'Gara's tripe brings to the Sys-Con sites, that they'll choose her." James isn't the only one either.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Did someone say cat fight?

I thinknhe got it just right

[CdBee]

Its a techy site. I bet the owners spend more time reading slashdot than reading their mail.

DictionarySearch 0.6.3 and Maureen

[JPelorat]

Apparently the Dictionary Search extension for Firefox, when you do a context menu search on the word 'hack', gives you this page:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=maureen%2 0o'gara [reference.com]

Hi, Maureen

[JPelorat]

Eat any good marine iguanas today?

Sekrit Identity

[poena.dare]

Apparently, no one has realized yet that Maureen O'Gara is actually Jeff Gannon/Gucket in a dress.

Wait a second...

[DingerX]

How do we know there really is a Maureen O'Gara either? Maybe she's a victim of identity theft too! After all, I followed that linky from the yahoo people search, keyed them in, gave them my credit card, and they gave me this address [wikipedia.org]. I went there and asked if they knew a Maureen O'Gara, and was told that she was a Mormon, or her descendents would baptize her as one. Being a Mormon, even one in the future, is a full-time job. Pretty nice digs though.

Re:as much text as I could get...

[kfg]

. . .some strange man that "nobody knew," as the super described him, had tried to get into her apartment while she was gone - the Medeco lock she had had installed on her door - something nobody else in the complex seemed to feel a need for - was more expensive than the door.

Dear Ms. O'Gara,

Thank you for your words and letting us know that PJ is not simply paranoid and that they are out to get her.

I'm sure PJ appreciates your kind support in this matter.

KFG

This supports my theory...

[Anonymous Coward]

Maureen O'Gara is really Darl McBride in drag. Ever see the two of them togather? Of course not. Just take a close look at a bio pic of "Maureen O'Gara" with the fright wig and makeup that resembles bozo the clown. Then take a close look at McBride and imagine him with the same wig and lipstick applied with a paint roller. It is no accident that whenever he promises some outlandish crap will surface, that "Ms. O'Gara" is the one who delivers it. Darl could just save a bunch of time by placing the wig and makeup on his butt. Then when O'Gara was to suddenly appear all he would have to do is drop trou....

Five Useless Maureen O'Gara pages

[Anonymous Coward]

Two before. Three After.

Lets do a 30 day boycott of any advertisers that fall within five pages of an article written by Ms. O'Gara.

Imagine the chaos this would cause....

Yea, I'll advertise in your magazine as long as I'm not within five pages of that woman!

Re:Shame

[tomhudson]

I HATE MOGs

I *really* *hate* MoGs.

The WalMart down the road was selling Mini Maureen O'Gara Trolls (MoGTrolls) for 2 cents a piece. That was even less than the 5 cents a piece I paid for those damn monkeys ... so I figured "What have I got to loose?"

So I bought 250 MoGTrolls for $5.00. I mean, what's 5 buck, right? What could possibly go wrong?

I took my 250 MoGTrolls home. I have a big car. One of them insisted on driving. Its' name was Maureen O'Gara (all the MoGTrolls answer to Maureen O'Gara). It was retarded, even for a troll. In fact, now that I had them outside in the daylight, it was obvious that they were all "more than a few bricks short of a full load." I couldn't let the MoGTroll drive, so I kicked it in the head. It LIKED being kicked in the head! WTF? So I obliged it by kicking it some more. Soon, all the MoGTrolls were kicking each other and giggling like crazy, snot running down their ugly troll faces. This made it hard to drive, but we finally made it home.

I herded them into the basement. They didn't adapt well to their new environment. They stopped kicking each other, and just sulked. Then they began pulling the hair out of each other. It quickly became am ess. Oh, and nobody told me that MoGTrolls aren't toilet trained. I googled and yahoo'd for "toilet training MoGTrolls", but all that came back was "lots of luck, sucker!" and "never been done."

The novelty of having 250 MoGTrolls had worn off.

The MogTrolls got out of the basement and kept trying to use my computers, even though everyone knows that MoGTrolls can't write for shit. They kept on, though, and started posting all sorts of weird, distorted stuff. I mean REALLY bent! So my ISP cut me off. I hate MoGTrolls.

I had to find another ISP. And the damn MoGTrolls got me kicked off that one, too. I went from high-speed cable to adsl to dialup to - well, lets just say that TCP/IP over a clothesline really sux. I can only post when my neighbours are doing their laundry. I feel SO low having to steal bandwidth through their underware flapping in the breeze!

Did I mention that I hate MoGTrolls?

At least by now I knew why the MoGTrolls were so cheap - nobody would want one. All they do is sit around and make rambling random noise and emit noxious vapours, and excrete stuff that even the dogs don't want to sniff ... and dogs will eat their own puke!

I didn't know what to do - I was at wits end. So I went out to the local Home Depot and bought some muriatic acid, the stuff you use on concrete. I took one of the MoGTrolls and dipped it into the muriatic acid. The acid turned into goo. I poored some on the sidewalk outside, and it quickly melted the ice. Unfortunately, it also completely removed the top inch of concrete. The city had to replace the sidewalk. I got the bill last week. I hate MoGTrolls.

I decided to kill them all and throw them in the garbage. Do you have any idea how HARD it is to kill a MoGTroll? They're worse than cockroaches! You can drop a load of bricks on them, squish them flatter than a penny after the train's gone over it, and next morning they're back at it again, spitting, being mean, and just looking butt-ugly as usual.

So I tried to have a garage sale. I TRIED to make them look half-way decent, but MoGTrolls are like SCO stock - no amount of lipstick will make that pig look good. Not only did I not sell a single MoGTroll; the police gave me a fine for disturbing the peace. All the kids in the neighbourhood are having nightmares, and the school has to have a psychologist on staff full-time to deal with all the trauma that being exposed to a whole herd of MoGTrolls can cause in young minds. I hate MoGTrolls.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It's still there. Then I had one wet gibbering MoGTroll, 1 acid-stained MoGTroll, and 248 dry MoGTrolls, and one blocked toilet. The MoGTroll won't come out of the toilet. I don't mean its stuck in it - it R

Re:Shame

[Master of Transhuman]

I wish I had mod points today - you'd be worth more than Gates (in points anyway).

Laughed like hell.

PJ is 61

[dtfinch]

I knew it. I tracked her down like 6 months ago but wasn't sure enough it was her to post it. She's a really great girl. I have a lot of respect for her.

I guess Linux is ready for grandma.

Pull an Opera.

[Facekhan]

LinuxWorld should offer to fire O'Gara if their subscriptions rise by x amount in 5 days.

Kewl - a Palindrome!

[Anonymous Coward]

Reads the same both ways:

OGARA GO

On being a sock puppet hoist by their own petard

[valdis]

OK, I don't know, nor do I care, if PJ is really a 61 year old Jehovah's witness or a 98 year old monk living in a grass shack on Okinawa.

If I had been Maureen O'Gara, if I had found out this "truth" about PJ, I'd have backed away very quietly and carefully and not said a thing about what I found. It's bad enough when Darl is fuming and venting because he think some IBM front ruined his SCOsource venture with their fronted website.

Now Darl has to admit that he got bested by a single Jehovah's Witness who had hit beat on both active neuron count and morals....

Re:DictionarySearch 0.6.3 and Maureen

[tomhudson]

No entry found for maureen o'gara.
Did you mean marine iguana?

No, but I can see how you could make that mistake.

That's because when you lick certain species of marine iquana, you begin to hallucinate like a Maureen O'Gara.

Re:A few words about Ms O'Gara's article

[Citizen of Earth]

Darl has done no such thing.
However, less than one month later, O'Gara did.

So, has anyone ever actually seen these two characters in the same room at the same time?