Ben Domenech, the new/ex blogger at The Washington Post appears to have copied three new pieces

Several sections of Domenech's Oct. 22, 1999 review of the film "Fight Club" were similar to Andrew O'Hehir's Oct. 15 review of the same film on Salon.com.

Domenech writes, "Brad Pitt, a violently charismatic mack-daddy whose gospel includes such maxims as 'You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not your khakis.'"

O'Hehir writes, "Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is a dissolute, mack-daddy hipster whose gospel includes such maxims as 'You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not your khakis.'"

Later Domenech writes, "Pitt spouts Cliffs Notes versions of Hemingway and Neitzsche about self-destruction and the physical body, flavors his conversation with coy homoeroticism …"

This is similar to O'Hehir's review.

"Tyler Durden's wisdom is mostly tossed-off Cliffs Notes Hemingway and Neitzsche maxims about self-destruction and the physical body, flavored with a coy homoerotic wink," O'Hehir writes.

Later, Domenech writes "[t]here isn't a lot more to tell about the Norton-Pitt-Carter triangle without giving away 'Fight Club's' bizarre secrets …"

O'Hehir writes, "[t]here isn't a lot more I can tell you about the narrator-Tyler-Marla triangle without giving away this tangled and far-too-long movie's secrets."

Domenech's Jan. 21, 2000 review of the film "Magnolia" contained several sections that were similar to Todd Anthony's Jan. 6, 2000 review of the same film in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Domenech writes, "Cruise quickly eradicates any lingering aftertaste from his last performance in Stanley Kubrick's depressing 'Eyes Wide Shut,' strutting across the screen as the inwardly tormented leader of 'seduce and destroy' seminars designed to teach lonely men 'how to make that lady friend your sex-starved servant.'"

Anthony writes, "Cruise eradicates any unpleasant aftertaste lingering from his involvement in Stanley Kubrick's disappointing 'Eyes Wide Shut' last summer. Cruise struts … as the inwardly tormented leader of 'seduce and destroy' seminars designed to teach lonely men 'how to make that lady 'friend' your sex-starved servant.'"

Later, Domenech writes, "Robards' attempts to settle accounts parallel to those of a popular game show host (Philip Baker Hall). At least the latter man knows how to get in touch with his offspring, but his cocaine-addled daughter (Melora Walters) spurns his 12th hour attempt to patch up their differences." The only difference between these two pieces is that Anthony uses "child" rather than "offspring."

Domenech also writes in his review about "a wealthy bedridden cancer patient and TV game show magnate who long ago cheated on and abandoned his terminally ill wife." This is identical to Anthony's review of "a wealthy bedridden cancer patient and TV game show magnate who long ago cheated on and abandoned his terminally ill wife."

The Flat Hat also found three passages in Domenech's Oct. 27, 2000 column that appear to be copied from two columns written by Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large of National Review.

In the first passage, Domenech uses the phrase "warped as road rash on velvet," which is similar to Goldberg's Sept. 20, 2000 column "These Things I Know" on National Review Online, in which he writes "'gay as road rash on velvet' doesn't actually make sense but it sounds pretty damn funny to me."

Later in the column, Domenech writes, "'Sporting his mature Jon Bon Jovi haircut and his even-sensitive-souls-can-have-big-pecs black ribbed T-shirt, Kashner exudes an air of jock-poet ennui – 'Not only have I read Proust, but I can also kick your ass.''"

In Goldberg's May 13, 1999 edition of "Goldberg File," he writes, "Sporting his mature Jon Bon Jovi haircut and his even-sensitive-souls can have big pecs black T-shirt, he's reading a slender volume of poetry with convenient big print. He keeps looking at me with an air of jock-poet ennui – 'Not only have I read Proust, but I can also kick your ass.'"

Finally, Domenech writes, "I'd be banned from the debates like a leper at the Playboy mansion," which is similar to Goldberg's Sept. 20 column, which says, "the Hotline bans me from its pages like a leper at the Playboy mansion." Domenech does not credit Goldberg in any portion of his column.

A catalog of Ben Domenech's articles with The Flat Hat is available here in pdf form.