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March 13, 2019

"This... Did not age well."

This... Did not age well. https://t.co/APgzxAB9FP
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D., M.S. (@Neoavatara) March 12, 2019

38 comments:

Kevin said...: Everything is now a hack, cheat code, or insider tip exchanged over tea to an audience desperate to not fall behind.

It all started with USA Today turning the news into a series of pictures and bullet points.; 3/13/19, 5:43 AM
David Begley said...: Huffman is the new Martha Stewart.; 3/13/19, 5:54 AM
MayBee said...: I hate the term "hacks". Not that that's the point of ll of this. The comments now under that tweet and the tweet of her daughter on William H Macy's lap (which is kind of iffy) are pretty funny.; 3/13/19, 5:55 AM
MayBee said...: But look at that Twitter feed. Huffman's life is so perfect, happy, and curated! And apparently, part of that curation was to be able to tell people their kid went to an elite school.; 3/13/19, 5:55 AM
mesquito said...: Think of where I’d be now if I had the foresight to be photographed in lacrosse gear.; 3/13/19, 6:32 AM
Amadeus 48 said...: Vanity of vanities. All is vanity and vexation of spirit.; 3/13/19, 7:02 AM
MayBee said...: I do have to wonder, if the kids who got in this way are still successfully enrolled or have graduated....what does that tell us about their admissions policies?; 3/13/19, 7:12 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Twitter is gross.; 3/13/19, 7:25 AM
Ralph L said...: what does that tell us about their admissions policies?

More importantly, their academics.
I can remember hearing in HS that Harvard undergrad was tougher to get in to than to graduate from.; 3/13/19, 7:36 AM
stlcdr said...: There are two parties to a bribe. Would you send your kids to school whose administrators are open to a bribe? Secondly if you can get away with bribing school officials, would you do it? Thirdly, is it only unfair because rich people can supply enough of the right kind of bribe?; 3/13/19, 7:39 AM
stlcdr said...: Bribery is a hack, so not seeing how this doesn’t apply: these people want to see hacking as a good thing, where in reality it can be either ‘good’ or ‘bad’.; 3/13/19, 7:42 AM
Ralph L said...: Huffman was Stoned, but I haven't heard if she was Mrs. Manaforted.; 3/13/19, 7:44 AM
Wince said...: The Ivy League has become a consumption good, more about the milieu than the mastery of knowledge.; 3/13/19, 7:45 AM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Kevin said...

It all started with USA Today...

Poor Richard's Almanac used different terminology, but was essentially a set of hacks, cheat codes, and insider tips...; 3/13/19, 7:58 AM
Darrell said...: Did the bribe receivers do a perp walk?; 3/13/19, 7:59 AM
BarrySanders20 said...: "Is it only unfair because rich people can supply enough of the right kind of bribe?"

Forrest Gump's momma (Sally Field) supplied the right kind of non-monetary bribe to get him into school.; 3/13/19, 8:03 AM
CJinPA said...: The one actress paid a half-million dollars to get her kid into USC so she could study...acting.; 3/13/19, 8:11 AM
Gahrie said...: The comments now under that tweet and the tweet of her daughter on William H Macy's lap (which is kind of iffy) are pretty funny.

Macy is Huffman's husband and the girl's father.; 3/13/19, 8:14 AM
Fernandinande said...: I hate the term "hacks".

Unpack the shovel ready paradigm shift: in Soviet Russia, hacks hate you!; 3/13/19, 8:23 AM
Levi Starks said...: Gettinto the Navy was a whole lot easier.
“Turn your hard and cough”
“Ok, you’re in”; 3/13/19, 8:45 AM
Sally327 said...: So I was in a doctor's office a few days ago and read this interview with Felicity Huffman's husband, William H. Macy, in a magazine. When this story broke yesterday I remembered how he answered one question in particular so I went looking for that, it was in "Men's Journal":

"What human qualities do you most despise?

Dishonesty. Self-delusion. Lack of character. President Trump is sort of my touchstone for the qualities I do not like."

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/william-h-macy-on-astronauts-abraham-lincoln-and-the-adventure-that-changed-his-life/; 3/13/19, 9:03 AM
MayBee said...: Gahrie said...
The comments now under that tweet and the tweet of her daughter on William H Macy's lap (which is kind of iffy) are pretty funny.

Macy is Huffman's husband and the girl's father.

Yes, I know. That's what I think makes the photo kind of iffy. An adult cuddling on her dad's lap like that is kind of icky to me.; 3/13/19, 9:05 AM
MayBee said...: Ralph L said...
what does that tell us about their admissions policies?

More importantly, their academics.

Exactly! Their admissions policies don't match their academics, apparently.; 3/13/19, 9:06 AM
Goldenpause said...: Everything you need to know about why she did things that got indicted is right there in her March 7 tweet:

"rules of life
-there are none
-create your own
-live them"; 3/13/19, 9:47 AM
Ralph L said...: "What human qualities do you most despise?
Dishonesty. Self-delusion. Lack of character.

Self-delusion was a Freudian slip, or he's in for a divorce.; 3/13/19, 9:59 AM
~ Gordon Pasha said...: This is a big win for Trump, it shows both the Hollywood elites, as well as the academy, as poseurs.; 3/13/19, 10:01 AM
William said...: It's a scandal for Academia and Hollywood. A twofer. Many here will take this as an occasion to dump on the many fine people who are associated with these fine endeavors and who are not involved in any way in this scandal. I urge the commenters here to take their cue from the good people at SNL and Pete Davidson. I'm sure Pete will not make a lot of stupid jokes and subject these fine people to ridicule.; 3/13/19, 10:04 AM
Anne in Rockwall, TX said...: Get your kid into an ivy league college with this one weird trick!; 3/13/19, 10:06 AM
WK said...: “What human qualities do you most despise?
Dishonesty. Self-delusion. Lack of character. “

He probably meant he despises those qualities in others.....; 3/13/19, 10:07 AM
Lurker21 said...: EDH said...
The Ivy League has become a consumption good, more about the milieu than the mastery of knowledge.

So it was a century ago. Harvard and Yale were places you went to if you had the right parents and went to the right prep school. They had to take a few academic high achievers from outside the charmed circle, but weren't enthusiastic about it, especially if the outsiders were non-WASPs.

That changed after WWII when the gates were opened to outsiders who scored well on standardized tests. Even the ethnic barriers came down, and for a time elite universities were more meritocratic.

Rising costs have ended that era, locking many qualified students out and we're back to the old days when an Ivy education was as much a social ornament as anything more intellectually serious.

The universities try to disguise this with all the talk about "diversity" but that's more like window-dressing to obscure what's really going on inside.; 3/13/19, 10:19 AM
Charlie Currie said...: Did anyone else notice how this operation was triggered on the same day Lisa Page's congressional testimony transcripts were released? Curious, that.; 3/13/19, 10:32 AM
Ken B said...: Tell me again howwrong Trump is when he says things are rigged, and that influence peddling is rife.; 3/13/19, 10:37 AM
Bill Peschel said...: Here's hoping William H. Macy is subjected to the same level of abuse as his wife's.

Even though he didn't sign the checks, he knew what was going on and approved.

Which is a pity, but there you go. À la lanterne!; 3/13/19, 11:00 AM
Bill Peschel said...: I will also point out that "tea" is cultural appropriation. White folks should stay in their lane and say "gossip."; 3/13/19, 11:02 AM
Sam's Hideout said...: Darrell said:
Did the bribe receivers do a perp walk?

Apparently? Some of this is parents bribing coaches to claim their kids are on their sports teams, and coaches were mentioned as included in the arrests. Not surprisingly, the media is focused on the celebrity parents.

A lot of this seems to be paying others to lie about the kids' accomplishments (I'm sort of including paying someone to taking tests for the kids here), instead of outright lying themselves on the applications.; 3/13/19, 11:27 AM
n.n said...: this operation was triggered on the same day Lisa Page's congressional testimony transcripts were released

You're kidding. Page's testimony was instrumental to uncovering collusion and "ethical" behavior at the top levels of the FBI and Obama administration. Well, hopefully the press will not do its democratic duty to raise the noise floor and sustain the cover-up of crimes past and in progress. As for "the blues", there is due process, not freedom of press, and uncivil assembly.; 3/13/19, 11:28 AM
JaimeRoberto said...: This would have been an amusing storyline for Desperate Housewives.; 3/13/19, 12:54 PM
JAORE said...: "Think of where I’d be now if I had the foresight to be photographed in lacrosse gear."

Well if your timing was poor and it was a DUKE lacrosse gear....; 3/13/19, 1:30 PM