PLZ SEE ME RE: LAST EXAM - BAD GRADE, NOT PAYING ATTN :-(

Babson college professor Kara Miller throws down the gauntlet to American college students who want to flirt and text and daydream.

And she is 100% correct that foreign students work much harder than us and do much better, even with a language gap.  That's because they value higher education and want to succeed through it, while American students see their four years as a time to party and socialize (among other things), and then once they get their first job, they are woefully unprepared.

If you want to know the bane of managers and supervisors, it's escorting the underperforming employee to the Human Resources department to tell them their services are no longer required.  In college, it's called the academic dismissal.

Full disclosure and addendum: While I was in college, I garnered a 3.2 grade point average.  That's a high B, almost near B+ average.  There were times where I should have been more proactive in getting my work done, but when I left graduate school (and didn't return), I had two C's; the minimum grade is a B.  I would have been put on academic probation the next semester.  If I had gotten another C, I would have been academically dismissed.  If you're a A or B student who works hard and grabs the concepts well, then professors notice it.  When you're a C or D student who doesn't try (or tries too hard in the drinking and hooking up department) then the professors know it isn't their subject matter that's the problem - it's you.

The altar of Gaia is fraught with Tofu-pup wrappers and crumpled pictures of Marx and Lenin in the nude

Note to the health Puritans and malignant gentry who are trying to hide their mega-control freak designs through Mother Earth - it's not nice to fool Mother Nature - in fact, pissing her off will give you something much more than you bargained for. 

If they weren't so obnoxious on your neo-Puritan crusade, and actually MINDED THEIR OWN GODDAMN BUSINESS, people wouldn't see them as the fussy eaters and spoiled children they really are.

Dumb criminal tip: never cash a stolen Lottery ticket

Two criminals in a Milton home invasion won the Stupid Criminal of the Century award when...

a. they attempted to cash in a stolen $5,000 Scary Money ticket at the Game Room at Ashburton Place

b. they both fell for the "oh, the system's down" stall while the Lottery agent (who knew the ticket was stolen) notified the State Police, and six officers came down and arrested both idiots

c. both A and B

Great job by the agent and the Staties.