Loser: The Internet can be a frightening and unsafe place, as an apparently unsuspecting Pleasant Grove woman recently discovered. She made friends with a man in another country, agreed to help him make some shipments he said were for his business, and then suddenly found herself being investigated as part of a stolen credit card scheme.
As this newspaper reported last week, police probably won't charge the woman, who apparently had no idea what she was doing. But her lesson is a good one from which everyone can learn. A trusting nature may be endearing in small-town life, but at a keyboard it can be a dangerous flaw, indeed.
Winner: The Princeton Review, which is not affiliated with Princeton University, makes Utah famous every year when it ranks Brigham Young University as the nation's most stone-cold sober place to study. Now it has struck again, naming BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School as the sixth "best overall academic experience" among the nation's law schools. The survey ranked the law school high in other categories, as well, which surely will help lift its reputation and prestige.
Loser: Politics doesn't have to get ugly, but apparently that message hasn't found its way to the Provo's mayor's race. The family friendly city has seen its mayoral contest get nasty in recent days, with someone releasing a copy of the incumbent's BYU grade report and someone else trying to link the challenger to big-time Democrats — something considered a liability in Utah County.
Unless someone has fabricated credentials, which apparently neither candidate has, the only things that should matter are philosophies, experience, integrity and competence. But those traits are, unfortunately, rather boring.