As I recall, N., who was smart and conversational and attractive, came home feeling horrible about herself, because she didn't have as much money as others there, or she wasn't this, or she wasn't that. The poor woman was in such despair.It's worth reading just for that incredibly, unintentionally infelicitous use of "poor," but you really have to read it all.
-Ron Dreher, the Cap'n in my crunchy con-
The Crunchster recalls that his Yalie friend, N., "painted a portrait of a society so status-obsessed that almost nobody dated." (Yeah, they were all too busy fucking.) These poor students were "afraid to take a chance on dating, for fear they'd choose the wrong person." Ah. There's the rub. The Crunch sees college as the moment for pair bonding; dating is the find-a-hubby/find-a-wife game. That's not to say that Yale isn't status-obsessed. Of course it is! This is America, you dweeb. Rather, it's to say that while elite undergraduate programs are surely full of plenty of yutes wishin' and hopin' for true love, they're hardly a hotbed of matrimonialism. The kids have more important things to worry about. Grades. Grad schools. Internships. Finding blow for weekend parties. The good stuff.
I once did a Yalie. At least, he said he was a Yalie. He studied art or biology or math or something. I'm pretty sure he had a name, but one can never assume. Ron Dreher may think he's discovered evidence of "Yale's dysfunction," but I can assure him that that evening Yale was functioning just fine.
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What? You'll blow Yale but never Harvard? You, sir, are an elitist snob.
I knew a girl who went to Yale once, but I find as I infiltrate further and further into middle age, it's not merely my greying beard nor my spreading gut, although those things are pretty fucking horrible in their own sovereign right, but it's the way I pull all the hotties I've once known along in my wake that is most appalling and unacceptable. That Yale girl doubtless has several kids and looks like a Rhesus monkey now. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
No one born in, raised in, lived in, or lives in Boston-Cambridge has ever, ever, ever been good in bed. That's all I'm saying. You've got to get at least 20 miles from the Charles to find a decent orgasm.
Heh. Well, as a man who has has his reputation trampled into the mud by a fellow born and raised in Lexington MA, primarily over something to do with me and his ex wife, well, I can only say, I'm glad to hear it, and will happily accept your authority, sir.
well... i'm screwed--though literally, not--which, if you're to be taken as correct, turns out not to be such a horrible fate.
O/T: Is a big party planned to welcome Bob Barr aboard the Libertine, err Libertarian party?
I wonder what the party of civil rights and privacy has to offer the guy who spent most of the 90s digging into the conduct of The Clenis, other than the whole not paying for government thing.
In his quote he says "I've come to the conclusion that the only way to [get back to our constitutional roots] is to work with a party that practices what it preaches, and that is the Libertarian Party."(The quote is at Crooks&Liars.com)
My question: in what meaningful way have the Libertarians ever been given an opportunity to practice what they preach?
MB
Any libertarian who's not also a libertine ain't worth his salt.
thank goodness i lived in new bedford.
Brown kicks Yale's ass. You only get grades if you want 'em and nobody does cocaine, just pot or shrooms. And there is dating, fucking, and all combinations thereof.
That's funny adri, because we used to call my alma mater "Brown for kids who did too much coke to get into Brown." Ah, Private Liberalartsia.
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