Category Archives: Underhand

Cost of a free stapler

Wise Bread told me how to get a free Swingline stapler. It’s not Milton’s red stapler but I did have my eye on staplers at the store, so I was interested.
The survey starts with an email address and at some point they’ll collect your mailing address. There was no link to a privacy policy so [...]

Good Marketing Copy

As Switters said: the more advertising I see, the less I want to buy (Tom Robbins). I am no fortress, however. This appealed to me:
…you freeloading “Internet generation” types should subscribe to the damned magazine already, for the so-low-it’s-sinful price of $19.97 per year.
Now I subscribe to Reason online and in print.

School shooting conspiracy theory

School shootings (Again) offer no explanations.
Gun control lovers fill their tanks on this stuff (State lawmakers push, pull on gun control following NIU shootings).
This time, investigators find a link (Gunman, Virginia Tech shooter used same Web dealer) suggesting that the shootings might have had a third party in common.
Besides well-meaning but misguided Americans, who would [...]

Homework

Use the Scientific Method to determine the validity of the Scientific Method.

Marl the Stock Robot: Scam?

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Have you heard of Marl the Stock Robot? Google “Marl” and click the first ad you see. You don’t have to read the whole page because I have summed it up in the next paragraph. Please click the ad anyway. You’ll understand why in a minute.
That page tells a story [...]