To tell you the truth, UD‘s gotten pretty tired of Evan Dobelle, the man out to prove that even if you’ve got a long public record of misuse and maybe outright theft of funds, there’s always another sucker university out there to crown you president.
Evan Dobelle is the “Catherine” of the twenty-first century American university… Catherine being one of the many aliases of Theresa Russell’s Black Widow (“She mates and she kills.”). Catherine kept blatantly marrying rich men and almost instantly after that killing them, but no one ever seemed to notice, and new men just kept on marrying her. Cuz she was pretty and all.
In the case of serial president Dobelle, there wasn’t any Debra Winger around to scream at all the stupid male FBI agents that there’s a pattern here!… One after another school fell for his sweet talk and failed to do the sort of background check that might have uncovered his penchant for disemboweling universities…
So now the Massachusetts Attorney General is going to try to get some of the state’s money back from Dobelle-Trobelle Dobelle…
The AG’s lawsuit against Dobelle seeks damages, civil penalties, costs and attorney’s fees associated with the AG’s ongoing investigation, and the costs of the OIG’s investigation. The AG’s Office will continue to review the OIG’s recent detailed report. Today’s lawsuit does not foreclose the potential for additional action.
UD is tired of Dobelle because he seems to UD what she would call a mild psychopath and is therefore boring. UD and Mr UD have a longstanding endless argument about this. Mr UD says psychopaths are fascinating and UD says only movie psychopaths are interesting because the scriptwriter typically gives them bold slashing ambition and eloquent self-awareness (Catherine, Hannibal the Cannibal, Dr. Robert Elliott), whereas in real life most of them turn out to be – at one end – inarticulately compulsive anti-social nasty petty gameplayers (this seems to UD Dobelle’s type), and at the other end raving dangerous lunatics. Why, UD always asks when they enter this well-worn terrain, should UD waste a moment of time with either type? Except to learn about how to protect herself from them?
Anyway. UD wishes the AG well in her effort to recover some money from the guy. The problem is, he’ll keep playing legal games (he’s counter-suing his most recent ATM) until it’s not worth the state’s while.
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UD thanks James.
August 7th, 2014 at 8:06PM
I’m not at all sure that “inarticulately compulsive anti-social nasty petty gameplayer” captures it. Before those six presidencies, he was elected mayor of his home city and served as U.S. Chief of Protocol – hard to do if you’re really inarticulate or antisocial. (Sociopathic, maybe.) “Slick conman” might be a more accurate characterization.
August 8th, 2014 at 4:52AM
Indeed, contra UD, psychopaths are often intelligent, charming, and superficially exhibit great leadership. They are not self-aware (indeed, a lack of self-knowledge is really a characteristic of psychopathy) but they understand very well how to manipulate other people and to take advantage of what they see as their naïveté.
August 8th, 2014 at 6:30AM
Alan: I suppose you and Mr Punch (and Mr UD) are right – I suspect my decision that they’re ‘boring’ has mainly to do with how scared they make me.