Oh dear, Shia Labeouf, thank you for giving me something to think about.

The Transformers actor and complete goofus spent the holidays doing damage control for a series of plagiarism accusations: once for an apology he lifted from an Esquire feature, another for completely ripping off a graphic novel to make a film short, and then again for stealing words from Yahoo Answers to justify his use of the graphic novel.

What was he thinking when he pilfered those words? Was his Yahoo question “What is plagiarism?” Admittedly, I wouldn’t cite Yahoo Answers as my source in an apology, and I’m sure this opinion on plagiarism is shared by many, but using the copy-paste function is just dumb, unless you put quotes around the words and give credit to the author. So I feel bad for the guy. He doesn’t have an original idea inside his head because he’s not that smart and that he hasn’t learned from public shaming and repeats the mistake two more times (that we know of) makes him look even more vacant.

So what does this have to do with sable cookies? Ahh… well. I made sable cookies and I stole the recipe from Martha. I tweaked it. To suit me. And I’m going to post it right here.

They’re good little cookies — they’re not super exciting, but they go well with coffee or tea. Makes about 25 cookies.

I don’t know where we draw the line on plagiarism in the world wide web of cooking, and if Shia Labeouf doesn’t learn from his mistakes, at least I will take the fallout as a suggestion. I’m citing my sources. Thanks for the reminder, Shia, and for being a total Twinkie.