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Prompted seven Southern States to secede and form the confederacy and the second in 2020 with donald trump. In the modern era the transition would begin with a Concession Speech on election night, often characterized as gracious. A stark difference from what happened three years ago. One of the great features of america is that we have political contests, that they are very hard fought, as this one is hard fought, and once the decision is made we unite behind the man who was elected. This is a fraud on the american public. This is an embarrassment to our country. I have no bitterness, no ranco...

There is a fascinating, engrossing, and disturbing column in the NY Times today on the current state of elite college admissions.LINK:  This is Peak College Admissions InsanityMichigan is not the focus. The column looks at the admissions lunacy in the Ivy Plus schools. (Ivy schools plus MIT, Duke, Chicago, and Stanford.) Some of the factoids are astounding. To wit,

Harvard Professors Discuss Affirmative Action, Legacy Admissions at IOP Forum | News | The Harvard Crimson

They're not a majority, based on a new look at education data, but they are wildly overrepresented.