George Gollin Attacks US Military

[Albert Hidel]

I got an idea. Maybe he could make some additional money selling George Gollin Bobble Head Dolls.

Although the cranial content would be substantially equivalent to the real thing, I doubt there would be much market for such atrocities, except maybe around Halloween.

On the hierarchy of stupidity (or would that be the "lowerarchy"?) if I had to choose between
a) people who sell fake degrees
b) people who buy fake degrees
c) people who give raises to people who bought fake degrees

I would say it's no contest that those in group c) are by far the most stupid, culpable, and worthy of contempt, scorn and public humiliation.

Back before the development of the internet you had to really knock yourself out to check on somebody's degree. You might have to pick up the phone and call somebody or even splurge on a stamp to send a letter.

But now there is really no excuse for anyone not to know what sort of degree they are being asked to pay out on. It takes all of about a minute to google a school or even less if you are clever enough to bookmark the CHEA database.

So who signed off on giving raises for fake degrees? Why aren't they being embarrassed in public?? If the system is so incredibly complicated and confusing that highly trained and educated HR managers can't be held accountable, then how can unsophisticated students be held to anything less?

As has been discussed here before, several legit degree evaluation services (not just Sheila's) got burned on the Liberian double-cross of SRU. If professionals can't figure it out, how can students be expected to?

Obviously it makes no sense to crucify students in this context, so the fact that Gollin and his ilk are bent on doing so suggests they have ulterior motives. Hatred of our nation's brave defenders certainly may be one explanation, but I'm thinking it's more like Captain Queeg re-living a past moment of glory:

Another episode which highlights Queeg's behaviors occurs when a quart of strawberries vanish from the wardroom icebox. Remembering how he helped solve a mystery involving a similar theft when he was an ensign earlier in his career, Queeg attempts to recreate his former accomplishment by insisting the strawberries were pilfered by a crewmember with a duplicate key. Queeg orders every key on the ship collected, and a thorough search made. During the search, the captain is confronted with evidence that the messboys ate the strawberries. Queeg loses all enthusiasm for the search, though he orders it to continue, and it is continued in a desultory way amid public mocking of the captain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Queeg#Eccentricity

Gollin will be cutting his own tow line soon enough. Let's just hope that when he drops a dye marker that the only yellow stain he leaves is on himself.