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Jonah checks in from North Pole, Alaska, opining on the health care debate, the adventures of Jonah's father-in-law, the Middlebury College riot and what it portends for our culture. a slew of Helen Keller jokes, inconsistencies with King Kong, and some thoughts on that BBC interview that was interrupted by kids.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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So John makes the mistake of calling Middlebury students "terrible Vermonters", or the like. John, what makes you think Vermonters can afford to swan about at Middlebury College?
If Vermonters are attending Middlebury, it's a very, very small slice of the group that can actually afford to go there. Vermonters that can't afford Middlebury go to UVM, a state school, with one of the highest (if not still the highest) in-state tuitions in the country.
There's a reason I left. It wasn't because I wasn't allowed to riot and assault visiting guests on campus. It's because there's not much left for true Vermonters, anymore. I was born there. Pretty sure I don't want to be buried there, despite the appeal of being buried in the same state as Ethan Allen, even though I was born, literally (not figuratively) about a half mile from his gravesite.
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Have you heard about Hellen Keller's autobiography?
Neither has she.
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Sadly, Chris, there's really no town/gown divide anywhere in Vermont today. The tribal, incoherent leftism on the campuses dominates the state's politics. Volunteering for Reagan in 84 was the highlight of my undergrad years in Vermont. Even better than hearing a native pronounce "hornswoggle" for the first time. Reagan won almost 60% of the vote. He won every county in the state. Yes, even Chittenden.
By 2008, John McCain, who you might have imagined could be a poster boy for a Vermont Republican in 1984, would win 30% of the vote.
Such a silly, sad, socialist state full of the most obtuse white people in the country, no more able to see facts in front of them than Helen Keller.
And all in little more than twenty years.
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I see what you did there.
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Hear! Hear!
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