And The Award Goes To ...
To the General Telephone Co. of California for firing one of their employees who testified before the Public Utilities Commission that the company had given the public limited choices, had a lack of equipment and bad taste.
To the Bureau of Land Management for requiring the Shoshone Indian Tribe to get a permit and pay a tax on the pine nuts they gather, despite the tribe having guaranteed the right to pick them by treaty, the nuts being a basic food of their diet.
To the Meadow View Wildlife Preserve for training ducks to eat by honking a horn, putting them in a tower, having them come out by honking the horn and shooting them when they came out. (+5)
To United Airlines for firing an African-American stewardess for not cutting her hair, she had a natural Afro hairstyle and it was one inch too long for United's standards. (+1)
To the state legislature of California for passing a law allowing new car dealers to disconnect the odometer on cars until they are sold (+1)
To the National Security Agency, because a Washington real estate developer called the Russian embassy and got the exact number of people working at the NSA faculty at Ft. Mead after they wouldn't give him the information. (-1)
To the Surgeon General, to award it to a lobbyist for the tobacco industry for testifying before Congress not to put health warnings on cigarette packaging
To the Air Force for firing an efficiency expert who had, before a Senate committee, blamed them for cost overruns for a transport plane, citing bad management and inadequate cost control (+3)
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