I’ve noticed lately that snopes is not a source to be trusted. While the email certainly constitutes plaigarism, did you fact-check the snopes claims before debunking this crap?
oh dear. this was meant to be a reply to the following thred:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=29895
forgive my idiocy 
zuma, there was another thread a couple of days ago called If you read Ann Landers… that addressed the same issues that snopes debunked because Ann Landers apparently made the claims in an article. Another source other than snopes was given to debunk it. It was called Re: The Price of Liberty and you can look at it for yourself to see if you feel snopes is accurate on this issue.