The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Her Prius Is in the Shop?
“Leading Scientist on Climate Change Will Be in Lincoln”–headline, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star, March 28
News of the Tautological
“Most Ancient Fossils Aren’t Life, Study Suggests”–headline, LiveScience.com, March 25
Cheater Cheats Cheater
Here’s a hilarious report from “Watchdog,” a consumer column in the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minn.:
The college senior in Colorado felt cheated when for $23 per page she ordered a custom-written term paper from a Twin Cities company and it wasn’t delivered on time.
Never mind that she was cheating by passing off a paper written by a stranger as her own. She complained to the Better Business Bureau about [the company], owned by [a man from] Farmington.
“I ordered it, and they were supposed to have it back to me within four days,” she told the Watchdog. “I constantly emailed. Nobody replied to me. Then [the owner] calls me and says under no circumstances am I going to get a refund.”
It wasn’t the first complaint filed against the company, which has resolved most of those registered with the Minnesota BBB.
Thank goodness for the Better Business Bureau. Without them, who would keep the cheating business honest?
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