Infodump time. I wanna clean out the browser.


56% Of MBA Students Cheat Regularly

Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply - Most of you probably have heard my story by now about the student I encountered when I took ceramics a few years ago who argued that cheating, including the buying of essays, was okay because "it's not fair that some people are smarter or work harder and get better grades". Aside from that hopefully obvious downside of effort-based reward in public schools these days, there's obviously an increased general sense of higher education as a means to an end (a document saying you've been there) than actual education. I wish I could say I don't know how these people could go on to function in real-world scenarios, but having met my share of lazy-ass office workers and assorted sychophants, I can actually imagine that good cheaters probably do well in life by consistently cheating and sucking off of everyone else around them. Sad, but probably true.



A Conservative Pundit’s Plus-Size Remark - "Criticizing a woman’s weight is one of the 'last frontiers' of socially-acceptable prejudice, says Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain." Yup, probably.



Energy Company Debits $1.28 Million From Your Bank Account - This is why Corran and I never sign up for auto-pay on anything. It just always strikes us as a dumb idea to let someone else access your account. Given how many companies we've had over the years pull various shenanigans - ranging from the cable company who splits your bill without telling you and adds a new charge you didn't agree to, to the home alarm company that won't cancel your account when you move out of town and sell the house because they'd like a few more months of payment first before letting you go, unless you're going to use them in your new residence - the very idea of letting these companies have direct access seems foolish to us. We like to maintain control over our finances, thanks.



A lesson to marketers about the importance of reading the blogs they pitch to but who probably won’t read this because they don’t read the blogs they pitch to - Very funny. If I had time to read blogs regularly, this one would be high on my list because of entries like this.



Wolverine toy, more inappropriate than Barbie - gacked from the blog above. Which resulted in her posting this.



FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results - Frickin' awesome! Woot!


Best Buy Accused Of Paying Bonuses To Managers Who Don't Price Match - Yeah, well, big shocker. Yet another reason we're glad we stopped all Best Buy shopping back when they came out with their "demon customer" crap, since we're total demons, according to them.