Does The Loony Law Perfesser Have A Sideline?

Now, this is funny!  Portland-area part-time tax-law perfesser over at Lewis and Clark College fancies himself more as a political pundit, so he spends most of his time surfing the web and blogging.  Being a liberal, he is intolerant of opposing views and takes great pride in his "banning" trigger-finger.  I don't mind his spending so much time surfing, though I do object to his generally ham-handed (typically liberal) approach to what passes for discourse over there.  Interestingly, although he uses college systems to facilitate his blogging endeavors, he attempts to justify his perpetual stifling of speech by claiming that he "pays the bills".

It was amusing, then, to find that his site has a clone.  Two hacks, one name. 

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[ZZMike]

"For years I tried to make a go of making money online while holding down a full time job with little success ..."

Evidently that full-time job doesn't pay very well. Or maybe it's just boring.

Suppose we parse the sentence this way:

"... holding down a full time job with little success ..."

OK, now he gets a little sympathy.

Another thought: "tax-law perfesser"... OK, now go read some of his stuff on the "clone" site. I ask you, members of the jury, does that look like the writing of a "tax-law perfesser"?

[Not that I care what he's up to. To each his own.]

Now take a look at the "Club":

"This System Makes Me At Least $171,168.06 Per Month..."

".06"?

"... proven to generate at least $354.97 per day ..."

".97"?

That's the absurd use of precision (not accuracy) intended to amaze the less gifted.

Look also at some of the requirements this vendor of Olio Serpens says he wanted:

"I don't want a boss to tell me what to do.

I don't want to be on anyone else's time clock.

I don't want something that requires training."

Put them alll together and they spell

"I DON'T WANT TO WORK!!!!!"

I've seen a few of these "get rich quick while you sleep" schemes on late-night TV.

They're probably pretty successful at attracting the less gifted.

A little last-minute arithmetic:

$171,168.06 Per Month..." / 30 days/month = $5705.602 /day (mustn't forget that precision). A little out of line with the "$354.97 per day ..."

But who's counting?

One thing's certain: there is someone who makes good money off this venture. Mack Michaels, at $97 a pop.

[Max]

You noticed the "precision" as well, ZZ. I wondered if folks would pick up on that. It's an interesting pitch, at a number of levels. I was just amused that the name was so similar to that of the esteemed tax-law perfesser.