"And in conclusion, all's well that ends well, and there's a divinity that shapes our ends."

This link: https://toofab.com/2019/05/31/high-school-principal-caught-plagiarizing-ashton-kutcher-for-graduation-speech/
will take you to the video of what we're talking about here.  It gets complicated.

It's quite apparent that what happened was that Kenny DeMoss, principal of Parkersburg (W.Va) High School, was, shall we say, a bit too influenced by a speech that Ashton Kutcher made at the 2013 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards when he composed his graduation speech.

You watch the video, and you see the unmistakable duplication of Kutcher's words.  One of his graduates had the video of the address, and remembered Ashton's words, and made a mashup video that's been seen almost as many times as the video of Billy Bush and a certain politician discussing how to meet women.

In a day and age when everything is taped and YouTubed, I have to wonder why this DeMoss thought no one would recognize the amazing similarities. Maybe he hoped no one would notice what he did, just as he hoped no one would notice a white pick-'em-up truck parked just behind the podium at the commencement (late arriving speaker?)

The principal, who now rues the day that video technology came to exist, says he didn't MEAN to use someone else's words. He also stammers that he should have cited his sources, all right, but said the ideas were his own.

Really.  In essence, he said, "The ideas I cribbed from Ashton Kutcher were mine."  Maybe Kutcher stole from HIM six years ago.  Yeah. That's the ticket!

"I did not get all my ideas from Ashton. Format yes, thoughts and ideas were from my heart," DeMoss wrote, adding that he's upset the speech has taken the attention from his graduates.

DeMoss wrote an email on Friday and said he's putting the incident behind him.

"Me and my family are the only ones being hurt here. My accuser isn't. I love kids and love this school and this will only make me better," he said.

Wood County Schools Superintendent Will Hosaflook did not immediately return a reporter's voicemail seeking comment.  I, predictably, will write to Hosaflook to ask his thoughts on a principal who says "Me and my family" instead of "My family and I."