Life imitates National Lampoon

In 1973 National Lampoon published a high school yearbook parody. Among the tales and mysteries in it was the Mad Crapper, who pooped in various places when no one was looking. We were given enough hints to deduce that the Crapper was in fact the school principal, a detail that was confirmed a few years later when NatLamp did an update. They were close. [blogged earlier]

Now the Mad Crapper is getting a $100,000 golden parachute and threatening to sue the police for releasing his mugshot (Come to think of it, when you consider the multimillion-dollar payoffs corporate executives get for destroying their companies, that’s at most a silver parachute.)

Gentle, Reasonable, Amiable

Julian Baggini on David Hume [Aeon]