Plagiarism and Recalls

egg recall

The diarrhea lettuce wasn’t enough, now there’s contaminated eggs too. There’s not many meals that my bachelor-ized skill set allows me to cook. Without lettuce, no tacos. Without eggs, no breakfast beyond a protein bar. Somebody get these diseased foods under control!

The only thing worse than testing positive for the diarrhea parasite is testing negative; your diarrhea is naturally so horrendous, you thought you were sick.

cardinals vs cubs

Here we have our usual scores update search. The cubs win 3-0.

jason arday

In the past few weeks, Arday was accused of plagiarism, resigned from his Cambridge position, and released his memoir, “Great and Unfortunate Things.” I assume that this was a suicide amidst serious stress, which is a terrible shame.

Academic plagiarism, especially at one of the world’s premier university like Cambridge, is not to be taken lightly. Distrust in institutions already runs rampant, as seen in Trump’s election and staffing choices. This likely made the dialogue around Arday worse, and his high profile career and public recognition even more so.

The suicide suggests that we can not hide under our lies forever. Once other people stop believing them, the lies bear down on the last and easiest victim of them: oneself. And this weight is unbearable. As Dostoevsky wrote in The Brothers Karamazov:

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.