I kill people for fun. In books.
I have to admit, I derived an unseemly amount of satisfaction from this story.
He was the kind of school administrator some college students might have considered themselves lucky to encounter, someone who was willing to raise grades issued by professors when the students’ marks fell short of graduation requirements…Mr. Koutsoutis, 56, who was director of executive programs at the college’s Zicklin School of Business, appeared in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to 21 felony forgery charges and 10 misdemeanor charges of falsifying business records.
He received no money or favors for making the changes, according to court papers. When Justice Larry Stephen asked him to explain his motivation, Mr. Koutsoutis quietly said that he just wanted to give the students their best chances to succeed.
3. Paul Babeu
Paul Babeu’s coming out may be one of the most sensational, and complicated, of the year. The fiercely conservative, anti-immigrant Republican Sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, and a good friend of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, another extremely anti-immigrant law enforcer, Babeu was outed in February, when his undocumented Mexican immigrant boyfriend of a decade accused him of threatening him with deportation during a nasty break-up.
Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/12/2012_gay_coming_out.html#ixzz2FRVZdQpz
“Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the final five years of their lives, instead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years.”
Of course they can’t disentangle cause and effect, as “aerobic fitness is partly determined by genetics, and to that extent, the luck of the universe.”
Still, “much of a person’s fitness, especially by middle age, depends on physical activity, Dr. Berry says speculates”
Fortunately, a moderate (rather than an insane) amount of exercise is best.
Thinking about this is exhausting. I’m going to go lie down now.
When interviewing, “Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves in terms of leisure pursuits, experiences, and self-presentation styles.”
Or as Forbes puts it,
Here come the kids!
The Hilo March
A former instructor blew the whistle on an English as a Second Language program that apparently tolerated substandard work and plagiarism from full-tuition-paying international students. The whistle-blower photocopied plagiarized student papers as evidence for her claims.
She “was charged by SUU police for misdemeanor theft of lost property on Monday, and barred from campus upon threat of arrest.”
Southern Utah is not to be confused with Utah Valley, where a professor lost his job after committing such offenses as asking (senior level) students questions in class “even when they didn’t raise their hands.”
At the rate things are going, in three thousand years or so we’ll be a planet of imbeciles. Imbeciles without coffee. Enjoy life while you can, humans!
72 year old Chinese grandpa models girls’ clothing for his granddaughter’s shop.
“Modeling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose,” he said “I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy.”
…after going to my early morning community meeting, also with my shirt
inside-out. But the day was only starting. So I was in my office and I decided to take a break and read Gawker but just as I pulled the page up a student walked in to
ask about registering for a class, and when he left I realized that
this headline was prominently displayed on my 21 inch monitor.
I’m just going to make myself a cup of coffee and pretend that nothing
ever happened. And by make myself a cup of coffee I mean literally
become a cup of coffee so that when anyone comes looking for me
they’ll look in my office and say, “Nope, no one’s here, but someone
left a cup of coffee on the desk.”
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