summertime game show revivals, and sense and nonsense about Columbia

By Abolish Tenure
friday, august 1, 2025 at 7:51:00 a.m. edt

So abc is still trying to do the summertime game show revivals? The hour-long pyl seemed a bit much when I saw it about five years ago. One minute with the panel you described, you were more than generous with your time. Because they would never have done this:

"Come on, big bucks, big bucks, no whammies, and... STOP!"

"Stop at a Whammy!"

Cartoon of one whammy whamming the other whammy, um (use your imagination), saying, "Ah-hah! You've got HIV and I've got your money, ha ha ha ha ha ha wheeee!"

As to Harvard, the legal argument is fine, but that's what happens when we fail to keep-it-simple-stupid. Should have said, "We're cutting the grants because we're broke and it's not a proper federal function, anyway." Instead, we accept their premise that the federal involvement in education is good and normal. So we get hung up in endless debates about what's waste, what's fraud, what's abuse, what's legal. Thangled in a web of bureaucrats and judges and well-meaning substack writers. Moving at the speed of the judiciary: slow for us, fast for them.

prof. Jacobson, the legalinsurrection and collegeinsurrection guy, saw the Columbia story the same way I did. While magamedia was having a big old party over "see that? Trump made Columbia pay back $220 million," Jacobson pointed out it's a good deal for Columbia in the long run. They're back on board the gravy train, raking in the grant money.