… a bar in the shower.
Welcome to my world
Won’t you come on in?
Ivies and Nobels
Are there for me to win
Step into my heart
Leave your cares behind
Welcome to my world
Built with me in mind
Knock and all doors will open
Seek and I will find
Ask and I’ll be given
The key to this world of mine
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Seething all the same
A hedgie lives next door
See how they rig the game
He makes ten million more
Krugman’s in the Times
Every week or two
I am far behind
In the Chronicle‘s The View
Ivy? Sure. Cornell.
But it’s rated last.
Life’s a living hell
My rage is unsurpassed
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Related:
[T]he eliter-than-elite kids [at Ivy League schools] themselves help create a provisional inside-the-Ivy hierarchy that lets all the other privileged kids, the ones who are merely upper-upper middle class, feel the spur of resentment and ambition that keeps us running, keeps us competing, keeps us sharp and awful in all the ways that meritocracy requires.
On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.
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My title comes from this poem.
McCarrick, Wuerl, and … just… wow… So at least the Catholic church in DC has decided that one of its university’s deans shouldn’t get a pass when he writes this:
[Julie] Swetnick is 55 y/o. Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys? If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was an adult drinking with&by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe, he would be victim & she the perp!
In another universe, Chilean priests and monks wouldn’t “[create] their own sick sign language to command the deaf and mute boys to perform oral sex and be sodomized.” Maybe CU’s social justice dean should direct his attention to that.
… for Montgomery County Executive.
When Nancy was merely the mayor of Garrett Park, Maryland, UD wrote about her for the town’s paper, The Bugle.
Latest GP news, by the way:
Eileen [Kelly’s] very large Japanese Zelkova tree … has now been certified as the largest one in the country.
Beautiful weather, a low cost of living and gorgeous natural surroundings haven’t stopped Louisiana’s capital city from making it big in the world of crime and murder. Baton Rouge has outdone the rest of the state, which is [itself] 40 percent more violent than the nation as a whole. New Orleans is more popular, so Baton Rouge seized the opportunity to top the violent crime list. Baton Rouge isn’t a very large city, but it manages to attract attention by having 49 murders annually. If you have a death wish, it’s a great destination.
Why would you send your kid to school there?
… sex dolls, the composer of the immortal Plastic Fantastic Lover has died.
Yes, American university football made it for one week without any criminal behavior. This may be a record.
But all good things must come to an end, and one of Penn State’s most revered players stole a bike and then dumped it because “he did not feel like walking back to his residence building that day.”
Since this is simply the sort of thing you do when you are King of the Campus, locals doubt he will suffer any consequences.