Job Search Insanity Setting In

Looking for a job is bad enough in these troubling economic times, but coming across lines like this in job postings is enough to make me stab myself in the eye with my mouse.

...PhD required and strongly preferred.

Required and strongly preferred!?

Well, good news, job poster, your requirement ensures your preference will be met. Happy days are here again.

Of course, I'm not going to link to this posting because I actually applied to it, despite my lack of Ph.D.