… is another term for political history in America’s most corrupt state, Florida. A kind University Diaries reader (UD thanks you) sends an update on the distress of faculty and students at Florida State University over having a political hack shoved down their throat for president (that would be the perfectly named John Thrasher, who as chair of FSU’s trustees presided over the school almost having a chiropractic school shoved down its throat).
So UD does a search on Thrasher and Infinite Rascal Regression begins… Thrasher’s predecessor as head of the Florida Republican Party done went to state prison, while Thrasher himself seems to have thrashed out, before that happened, a real interesting severance agreement for his buddy… Among the signatures on that agreement was that of Mike Haridopolos, featured on this blog years ago for his own impressive academic career … Yes, infinite rascality… wheels within rascally wheels…
It’s an old Southern tradition. If universities aren’t dumping grounds for used up politicians, what are they?
July 16th, 2014 at 10:02AM
My wife always describes Florida as one mammoth, now sinking, real estate scam. Alas the “forms, flames and flakes of flames” of Wallace Stevens have been replaced by wall to wall fast food and endless muffler shops. Gold becomes Midas. It was once beautiful.