The university's student paper, which I've been calling the "Tri-Weekly Bird-Cage Liner" for years now, runs a police blotter. Public Safety seems to spend most of their time mediating boyfriend/girlfriend disputes, collaring drunk students, and taking note of stolen laptops.

In Wednesday's paper there was a doozie.

2/25 - A person used false credit cards for tuition payments.

Now, using stolen or forged financial instruments is certainly a bad thing. But leaving morals aside, there is a practical matter: if you think using a stolen credit card to pay your tuition is a good idea, then maybe you're not really college material to begin with.

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I used to get annoyed at the pointlessness of some USMC drill and ceremony. I had no idea how bad it could have been.

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Courtesy of the BBC's "Horrible Histories" kid's series (itself based on a book series), I give you a strangely familiar ad: .

Nicked from Overlawyered.

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This dude has talent.

I bet he could be a great pickpocket, too.

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This one goes out to my brother-in-law:

The discussion seems accurate, from what I recall of Econ 101 & 102.

Hat tip to Megan McArdle's blog.

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Let's get into the holiday spirit, with a little help from Jonathan Coulton!

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I have never read the Twilight series, nor have I watched their movies. But if someone paid me to create a new movie adaptation, I think this is what I'd go with:

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Pigeon Impossible. This short has apparently been winning all kinds of awards recently.

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