Video: A Dispatch Live Potpourri (feat. The Brisket)

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This Dispatch Live started with a very special guest from Sarah’s house singing his ABCs—and no it wasn’t Jonah (that happened later). Then, a very wonky conversation about Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and the U.S. higher education system as a whole with Sarah, Jonah, Declan, and Andrew. Following that was an even wonkier debate about the ethics of a meritocracy. And finally, a refreshingly honest reason the January 6 committee has delayed its final hearing. 

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    Ben Connelly

    “Andrew, you’re Italian.” Best answer on the TD live yet.

    Andrew responds that she’s “like Bernie Sanders” but culturally right-wing. So, she’s a fascist?

    Jonah nailed it both on the fascism point and the meritocracy. Sarah made me start to think she’s sounding increasingly progressive. If meritocracy has been poisoned by nepotism and corruption, the solution isn’t to go to a system that gets rid of the meritocracy and keeps the nepotism and corruption. It’s the opposite. Tell me, Sarah, do you want to live in a country in which we pick surgeons every day by a random lottery? Sounds like something the USSR or Mao’s China would have done.

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    Mike B

    Ladybug!
    (Girl's Halloween costume)

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  3. Eric L.

    I still don't understand why anyone would refer to her baby (fondly, to be sure) as a brisket - which is a cut of meat. Perhaps someone could enlighten me - call it "A Mini Guide to the Perplexed."

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    Mike B

    The Brisket is quite precocious for his age! I seem to remember him being born just a few weeks ago.

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    Pastorfbt

    By the time Andrew's little one is much older, he's going to have to relocate that liquor table a tad higher up.

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    PB3

    Jonah's explanation of collegiate education as little more than a cultural shibboleth is so correct it hurts.
    I'm on the tail end of my third higher education degree, with a four-year gap in the real-world applying my first advanced degree. I didn't use a damn thing on the job that I learned in either my collegiate or graduate program, with the two exceptions of Excel and professional communication courses.
    The rest is pointless nonsense designed to fill our time in between (1) our first day on the job; and (2) the are-you-competent vetting process that an activist Supreme Court long ago forced private companies to farm out to third-party collegiate admissions offices. See Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971).

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  7. Brocka121

    Oh dear, the brisket is freakin cute! And he already has politician hair.

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    Jonathan Crymes

    “Deseret” definitely pronounced with a hard “T” at the end. I live in Utah. That’s how people say the word here. I am given to understand that the original LDS settlers considered “Deseret” for the name of the state before choosing Utah. It works a little bit like the word “Dixie” in the south as a way to indicate a geographical area without using the word “Utah.” For example, the newspaper. Or the primary 2nd hand store chain in Utah, essentially like Goodwill, is called Deseret Industries.

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      Ben Connelly

      I always assumed the 2nd hand chain and the newspaper were owned by a single parent company. Are they not?

      I did know about “Deseret” being the original name before “Utah” was chosen.

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        Jonathan Crymes

        I am not 100% confident of this, but I believe Deseret Industries is operated by the LDS church as a charity org. I don’t think the paper is operated by the church but there may be an historical connection. You get back to the pioneer days and the lines between the church and its members are very fuzzy.

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          Ben Connelly

          Yeah I figured something like that

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    D.A. Danyluk

    Gadzooks, Sarah! What are you feeding that kid, Miracle Gro?

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    D.A. Danyluk

    Gadzooks, Sarah! What are you feeding that kid, Miracle Gro?

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