How's about the folks on Fark who are positive on the campus but so negative on the townies? That's patently offensive. Is it the appearance of realistic problems and difficult financial situations that makes the Beloit population so untouchable to these people? Or is it the narrow-minded, categorical, and dismissive worldview of the Beloit bubble-head that decides ordinary people are ignoble filth?

The average student of the class of 2007 knows nothing about Ho Chi Minh the same way Tom McBride knows nothing about Archduke Ferdinand or Emperor Qin. I turned off the radio the other day when NPR's annual story about the mindset list came on.