Tocophobia! There’s a name for it! This is fantastic news, I feel immediately less insane. I was on the fence about having kids (at least bio kids) until I realized that I am completely terrified by the prospect of pregnancy and birthing and would probably spend 9 straight months in an absolute terror and with no…

In any case, dorm dumpster divers are about to hit the MOTHERLODE!

What’s going to be interesting is if any of these schools decide to yank diplomas from students who’ve already graduated. Obviously, they can’t take the education out of their heads, but if you’re applying to grad school or whatever and the school won’t release a transcript or confirm your attendance, you’re fucked.

“...determined their level of culpability.”

whether the kid knew is irrelevant. the admission itself was illegitimate. “the family unit” used fraud to secure admission fraudulently.

Same!

http://swindledpodcast.com/ is pretty great too. 

Did you hear the podcast when the reporter actually talked to Bernie? Let me find a link for you. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-ponzi-supernova

One of the things that I realized watching the doc last night is that pretty much everything she says is a lie to manipulate people into thinking she’s credible, and most people are gullible enough to eat it up. The only remarkable thing she has ever accomplished is that ability, being able to lie and not to have a…

check out the Marc Drier doc

You should look up Devil in the White City. It’s a one-two punch of a mega-grifter/serial killer operating in Chicago near the turn of the 20th century. He ran more scams than Carmen Sandiego!

Lol, had the same feeling after the Enron scandal...just plug it into my veins.

I think you’d like “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room.” Highly recommended.

She makes the Fyre people look like damn saints. Bamboozling some doofuses out of a few thousand dollars apiece is a lot less appalling than knowingly botching STD tests. I just wish she had convinced Kissinger to go blow somebody.

It’s like Fyre Festival x100.

Mira would have been great. Elizabeth stole her Romy’s voice.

Liz Holmes and I were freshman dormmates at Stanford in 02-03 (Junipero, in Wilbur Hall) and she was totally unremarkable. Obviously the voice is fake but she never talked about biotech or starting a company or anything like that. She was a Human Biology major, but that was more a pre-med track than research science.…

The time I have most self-consciously changed my voice was when I did some on the air radio shows a few years ago. I was trying to sound calm, cool and collected in a smooth FM kind of way and my goal was to NOT blather and use a million filler words and sounds. (I remember almost everything from speech class.) When I…

I feel like Elizabeth Holmes just figured out how to become the perfect rich old man whisperer. From the doc, it seems as if she had grifting these credulous fools down to a science, and I am sure part of that was this absolutely ridiculous yet highly-effective character she created for herself.

theres a california accent?