This is a nice, pretty leech:
This is a not-so-nice-and-pretty, content-stealing leech:
And, of course, when you find one leech, there's probably more lurking around. Sure enough, there are others trying to suck off of the content you see on this page. (You know who you are, COLORADOHOMECLUBINFO and isadamlari.org!) If you are reading this on someone else's blog, and it doesn't say it is "by Karmen", and it isn't making any sort of unique comment on the content, then you are reading stolen words. Please do not patronize these sites; they steal content, often without giving any credit to the author, in order to support their ads.
Pretty leech photo by spamangr, via Flickr.
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