It’s not the profs that mandate it, its whatever agreement the University has with the book suppliers. Most professors recognize a scam when they see one and have been pushing towards writing their own material for students to buy.

I believe GRRM has admitted that he’s seen at least one forum post that’s correctly guessed how the story is going to end. So the question is are all these tangents that got introduced in books 4 and 5 meaningful in any way or did GRRM just get too wrapped up in world building.

It’s the concussed fever dream of Egg, after finally being boxed in the ears by Dunk.

Playing the anthem early pretty much proves the uselessness of playing it at all, right?

Funeral robberies are a big problem but really only seem to get publicized when it happens to someone marginally notable.

Hey, it worked for China! Let’s build tons of real estate to keep the economy going! Never mind its all going to sit completely fucking empty because its not needed, or that the money would be better spent investing in a single payer health system or improved mass transit links!

Um, no. First of all this policy of “economic starvation” failed miserably with Cuba. Secondly, America depends heavily on importing goods from Mexico, manufactured in the plants of American and European owned corporation. Probably much moreso than Mexico does, in that the plants that are there are already capable of…

Narcissists do strange things for attention, and with technology today it is easy to go big with your lie (and also, unsurprisingly, get caught).

It seemed clear to me he’s trying to sandbag whomever wrote that speech for him. Deliver it in the worst possible cadence and when the terrible reviews come in he can go back to being the flamboyant asshole (and not do any better in the polls).

Time to get back on your meds grampa. No one is butt hurt because no one is talking about it.

I sometimes wonder if there was a draft to disperse the Gawker writers to the other blogs, and if Ashley got picked last (or was dumped here even though Marchman said “pass”).

Are you ignorant or just plain stupid? How many people do you think have been killed over the centuries in the name of the Pope?

Nah, exactly what I thought would happened. There was some detainment somewhat out of proportion to the crimes committed and someone’s paying a hefty bribe to leave the country. Pretty much par for the course.

You want funny Seinfeld parody, go find the 9/11 spec script that’s been floating around the news sites.

Don’t quit your day job. Which I assume is collecting welfare.

Yep, not only did they fuck up and get in trouble than they lied about it. The vandalism was bad enough but the lying is just going to give the Brazilian authorities the excuse to really drop the hammer on these guys.

Tourists will make whatever shit up they want if they get caught up in legal trouble and think they can talk their way out of it.

It’s basically state sponsored kidnapping at that point and families are forced to raise money to pay the “fine”.

The earlier article has certainly exposed a lot of American ignorance about the realities of foreign travel and that a Passport from a G7 country is not a get out of jail free card.

The only difference between what happens every day to careless tourists in Rio and what’s happening with Lochte and co. now is that the latter are high enough profile for the international press to pick up the story.