Your Daily Dose of Random, with a Side of ISSUES, Man!

After having blogged for coming up on 5 years now - good God, my ego apparently DOESN'T know any bounds - I know that it's difficult to come up with the pithy, or the funny, or the ranty, or all of the above on a daily basis.  But as I always say, "Better a blogger be silent than completely inane, dude!"

Okay, I've never even thought that before today, as you know if you've ever read this blog and its encountered its recurrent inanity, so I'll just be taking my ladder and getting over myself now.

But not before pointing you to this article in the Chronicle Review, the point of which seems to be that the author has appointed herself the Arbiter of Sartorial Vanity, or something.  Which would be fine on a personal blog, but seems a bit odd in the Chronicle, unless someone there has decided that what they really need to do is to become more like Inside Higher Ed.  Hope this isn't registration only - if so, here are a couple of pertinent paragraphs:

"After 30 minutes, 286 calories and a lot of ruminating on men, women, looks, age, vanity and college T-shirts, I reached the apodictic conclusion that my fellow urban fitness fanatic looked ludicrous wearing his Harvard T-shirt. Why is this, I wondered. After all, practically every man and maybe half the women huffing and puffing in the gym wear T-shirts with words printed on them, and many of those indicate a college or university. Outside my gym, any ride on a subway will treat you to a veritable parade of college T-shirts. The problem doesn't rest in the college T-shirt, I finally figured out, but in who does the wearing...."

"Isn't it enough that Harvard, Yale and Princeton graduates rule the world, and rule it rather badly? (Do the names McBundy, Rostow, Bush, or Alito ring a bell?)

"This is O.K. As Jimmy Carter (alumnus of the Naval Academy) famously said, "Life is not fair." But hold on. It is fair. If you did graduate from Harvard, Yale or Princeton, and more than 18 months after your graduation you're still into wearing your college T-shirt, you're as pretentious as ol' Wolf. If you don't know it, that woman sweating it up on the treadmill next to you in the gym certainly does."

So the argument boils down to - if you're a white dude who went Ivy, you can't sport a college t-shirt after graduation, because makes you pretentious.  And also, some white dudes who went Ivy are Republicans!  And they rule the world, so NO SHIRT FOR YOU, PRETENTIOUS MCSNOB!

Well okay then, Random!