Latest Folly at Yale

[ndrosen]

I drink instant coffee. I used to buy cups of a better grade of coffee at the Concessions shop at the Patent Office, but since the pandemic, I have bought instant coffee at the supermarket, and not bothered to get a coffeemaker. Does this make me a contemptible boor, or less than human? Would I be subhuman if I lived in some town where only mass market Joe were available?

I raise these questions because of the latest kerfuffle at Yale, where some psychiatric residents want to get rid of Dr. Sally Satel for, among other grave sins, dehumanizing the people of an Ohio town by saying she had been surprised to find a coffee shop with artisanal coffee there. Dr. Satel has not been fired, as the yahoos demanded, but neither has the Yale administration dismissed the complaint, with an admonition to the woke twerps to find some real problem in the world, and help fix that. The complaint also treats it as unacceptable for her to criticize the saintly Al Sharpton.

That grownups — they’re medical residents, not college freshmen — could write such a thing, and not be laughed out of court, is both risible, and a disturbing sign of how far things have gone on some campuses.

Comments

[thewayne]

I'd be in trouble! I've lived my life within about 100 miles with our border with Mexico, so I have fairly high standards for what I consider Mexican food or Tex/Mex. When we were in Ohio interring my mother-in-law's ashes with her husband, my wife and I were shocked to find actually good Mexican food in Oberlin! We were expecting something about on par with Taco Bell, and were very pleasantly surprised to find exceptionally good fare.

So I guess I can never teach at Yale.

*sigh* Another dream crushed.

At my wife's observatory, the guy on her telescope's crew bought a $300 espresso machine and donated it to the observatory. Both telescope crews use it very sparingly to stay awake all night. The day staff have access to it, but instead drink Folgers and its like by the gallon. So it's all according to what you like.

Me, I did IT for a major police department for nine years and gov't IT for three decades, never developed much of a taste for the stuff.