No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

I have loved Boing Boing since first finding it some 17 years ago. Okay, I know, it’s not been on the net that long, but it’s got enough i-cred to claim that. This post about non-Disney songs made me laugh out loud when I read:
…including an apparently non-ironic ditty about how nifty it is to [...]

As a person educated to be an economist, I love this one.
A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job. The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks, “What do two plus two equal?” The mathematician replies “Four.” The interviewer asks “Four, exactly?” The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says [...]

This story is heartbreaking, and shows that some adults just don’t belong in polite society.
This woman, who apparently pretended to be a teenaged boy in order to bait and then cruelly insult a young girl, already battling depression, is just unbelievable. How could someone do this? And how can she maintain her freedom after having [...]