Hey Harvard and Yale: Buy the New York Times
This guy just cracks me up. I couldn’t get by this paragraph without wiping the tears from my eyes from laughing so hard.
The plan I have in mind would call upon the richest institutions to set aside 3 percent of their endowments to buy The New York Times. That’s for a start. Additional purchases of other newspapers by other endowments should follow.
I scanned the rest of the piece only to gaze upon this jewel of wisdom.
Although other newspapers are worthy of rescue, no newspaper is more important to national discourse than The New York Times, …
The guy needs to be writing for Jon Stewart.OMG, I had to go back and read the whole thing because near the end it just gets more hilarious.Forget Stewart, this piece is right out of The Onion.Get this:
As owners, the institutions would not get involved in setting editorial policy, directing coverage of higher education, or in any other news or business matter.
Bwaahhahahahaha, chortle, choke.UPDATE: The discourse on men in plaid is dealt with by the NYT.