The folks over at Power Line must be eating too much Gulf Shrimp, because Dartmouth called and they want their degrees back. Or, to take another stab at it, “hey, Hinderaker, your cranium called and it has some spaces to rent.”
It’s hard to believe the garbage that place spews. The other Ivies have their share of problem alumni, but Dartmouth takes the cake. It’s like their most popular major is in Scam-Artistry.
Of course, even with their fine Dartmouth educations, it’s actually easier to scam these guys than to be scammed by them.
It’s true what Ezra Klein says: the reason the Anger Translator bit at Nerdprom was so funny was because it wasn’t actually a joke. The president really does think that the media (Ebola!) are sensationalist and that Fox News considers it its mission to “terrify old white people with some nonsense!” He really does think Dick Cheney was the worst “president” of his lifetime. He really does think that climate science denialism is an outrage that threatens the wellbeing of our children.
Also, for Hinderaker’s benefit, the reference to senators throwing snowballs in the well of the Senate? It’s a reference to Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, and it really happened.
Dartmouth’s commencement address this year?
David Brooks.
Let’s have some guesses at the title….
Dartmouth is in New Hampshire. Home of all the disaffected “libertarians” who work in Mass for the $$$ and live in NH for the “freedom”.
“the reason the Anger Translator bit at Nerdprom was so funny was because it wasn’t actually a joke”
That’s the same reason Stephen Colbert was so funny at Bush’s White House Correspondents dinner.
ding ding ding, we have a winner!
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner to the list of distinguished Dartmouth grads. The Man is completely mental. Like Blago level kooky, but with the Koch brothers ideology. It would not shock me if he ended up in a federal penitentiary before his first term ends.
As a grad – my freshman year was the winter they attacked the protest shanties – I can attest that there is a critical mass of douchbag frat guys.
But, Robert Reich, C. Everett Koop…OK, that’s about it…
Hinderaker tells us in this post that his father beat him, even whern he was an older boy.
That certainly explains the denial, sociopathy and admiration for violence which are at the center of his world view.
The primary lesson of corporal punishment (primary because it integrates at an unconscious level) is that it’s okay for big people to beat up little people.