Oh man, Gordon Gee is on the list.
It cannot be overstated the extent to which there is a community of people who are eternally convinced that there is nothing more important than college and who reveal that bias in everything they do and say.
I have all sorts of ungracious assumptions about the extent to which college was formative for those people.
There is of course value in a college education! The issue isn't whether a physician went to college. It's the extent to which a physician or anyone obsesses over the importance of the college experience and the centrality of college to everything else.

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7 Nov
Stopped in traffic on I-80 long enough that the guy in front of me got out his drone to see how far traffic is backed up.
He just landed it on his hood. I am being more productive by watching Seinfeld on Netflix.
I sort of want to ask him if he got footage but I don’t think we’re at that level of dystopic collegiality yet.
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7 Oct
Last week I noted that the Jan. 6 subpoenas failed to include the Capitol-Hill rally organized by Ali Alexander. (1/2) washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
This was not a function of my story, incidentally. Just checking a box. (3/2)
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25 Sep
The Arizona “audit” didn’t conclude that Biden won Maricopa County. Instead, it gave a false veneer of authority to existent conspiracy theories. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Trump, of course, wasted no time making false claims about what the Arizona report found. So here is the truth. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I think the guy running the thing sincerely believes something fraudulent occurred, despite the lack of evidence. So the result was that he highlighted (often easily explicable) questions instead of proving anything.
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24 Sep
If you think that the Arizona audit didn't provide exactly what Trump and his supporters were looking for, you're almost certainly misunderstanding it. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
There's a lot of ho-ho!-ing about the vote count. But the vote count was never what Trump and his allies were focused on. What the review did is create a veneer of authority for the actual conspiracy theories, which very much survived. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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I was going to make this Tulare County but it has Yes up 11.
It's fun to actually get to dig into California politics instead of just being like "how many seats did the GOP hold".
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