Grading LOL

So, I'm busy grading essays and sitting on a hiring committee, so posting has once again ground to a halt. But I had to take a moment to share one of the most hilariously true lines I've ever read in student writing at the moment. He is working on a paper that incorporates scholarly sources, newspaper sources, web sources, etc. And for students who aren't used to being discriminating about their material, this part is really hard. Especially if they're used to just hitting up Google to figure out what's going on. This student is most definitely one of those students. In his introduction as part of his frustration at both his subject matter and the research process he writes about how difficult it is to figure out the causes behind the problem he's researching. Then, he writes:

"There are a million points that can be brought up about the subject that would just raise more questions. The internet produces no answers and confuses us all."

Truthiness.

-- DV