Ep. 163 - The Ivy League & Ivory Towers

Laughing at myself and looking at the world through the eyes of an ignorant peasant.

It's a funny story.

Recent polling indicates that almost 98 MILLION people still believe that Joe Biden is doing a great job!

(For the math lovers, that's 37.5% of the ~290 million adults in the country.)

I'd like to laugh at these morons, but first I need to laugh at myself.

Let me tell you story:

I have a book on my shelf titled The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. I've never read it. Sure, I've flipped through it a few times, but I've never actually read it. It was published in 1988 and covers everything from idioms and fine  art, to literature and world history. Tucked in between "ivory towers"  and "Iwo Jima" there is an entry on the “Ivy League” institutions that  comprise the heart of America's academic elite.

If only I'd read about that yesterday! Last night, as my wife and I were debriefing the day, she happened to pull up the Banks, Tanks, & Biden's Blunder article.... she paused with a look of amusement on her face. She looked  directly at me, with love in her eyes, and said: "It's Ivy League, not  Ivory League."

We laughed.

Growing  up in a plywood shack in the Alaskan wilderness, I knew I was  culturally challenged. We didn't have running water or electricity, let  alone a TV...

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