Last week sucked. That's all I'm going to say. So let's look forward and run the table. Like the sage wisdom of a John Mackovic speech after a loss-- "why don't jet fighters have rear view mirrors? Because they don't need to look behind them."
Fvcking moron.
This week's opponent is none other than the White Privileged king of Univeristies- Vanderbilt.
After the Civil war, Cornelius Vanderbilt- the RICHEST man in the world, was basically forced by his wife to give a million dollars to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Nashville to start a school that could train minsters that could comfort southerners during the difficult years of the reconstruction period. Cornelius was like "fvck that. I want to start a school out in Staten Island." His 2nd wife, who's name was Frank (Google up some paintings of her-- she looks like a "Frank")-- basically told him if he didn't give the money to the church to fund this college, he'd basically be humping his pillow until the day he died. So, Cornelius scratched a check for 1 million clams and gave it to his wife, who gave it to her sister, who gave it to her husband, who ran that church. Fvcking nepotism.
If you don't know what an asshole Cornelius Vanderbilt was, do some research. One of his most famous quotes was "You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is to slow. I'll ruin you."
Bet this guy was a blast at parties.
This list of his transgressions as a Robber Baron (maybe THE Robber Baron) is long and distinguished.
The Vanderbilt mascot is the Commodores. The nickname is Mr. C. "Why a commodore, Clob?"
Glad you asked. When Cornelius was a kid, he scraped up money from odd jobs and bought a sh!tty little boat and he would ferry people and cargo back and forth between Manhattan and Staten Island. Because the kid never seemed to sleep, and because of his punctuality and shrewd business trades, people took to calling him The Commodore.
Vanderbilt is the Rice of Tennessee but with a much more distinguished list of alumni- especially in the field of medicine. Name any field of medicine and Vanderbilt has an alumni that has won an award of some sort in that particular practice. Hearts. Brains. Lungs. Eyes. Livers. Stomachs. And even tits. Yup..... fake tit surgery was perfected by a Vanderbilt doctor. He won an award for it too.
Norman Shumway was the first man to do a heart transplant. Vandy guy....
The President of Panama went to Vandy. So did the prime minister of Soith Korea. Everyone's favorite climate dickwad, Al Gore went there. Even our current Governor Greg Abbott attended Vandy.
Dinah Shore, Roseanne Cash and Amy Grant all went to Vandy. Vandy even has 2 Academy award winners-- Delbert Mann and Thomas Schulman (he wrote Dead Poets Society).
6 Nobel laureates went to Vandy. Of course Texas has had 13..... but still, that is pretty impressive.
If you didn't know, I'll tell you. Cornelius Vanderbilt spit out a few kids, who spit out some kids, who spit out some more kids, who spit out even more kids who finally spit out a gay kid named Anderson Cooper. Yup. Anderson is the great, great, great grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The asshole apple didn't far fall from the tree. Unfortunately for Mr. Cooper, he's made his living in media, while shilling some facts mixed with mostly lies (especially the last 10 years).
For all his faults, Cornelius Vanderbilt had a few nuggets of wisdom-- one of them was "Honesty is the best policy, when there is money in it."
I don't think Anderson got that memo. Quite a shame.
Oh well. From my breakfast table trying to get this 10 month old to eat scrambled eggs, one fragmented bite at a time--
TEXAS!!!!