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So Robert Burton proposes that we have some sort of College Bowl to test the alleged thought processes of the candidates. Instead of oohing and ahhhing over Obama’s halo, or Palin’s hot milfness, as they’re being pitched softball questions, we would actually test their skillsets or whatnot? As if they were being interviewed for a job, as our potential employee?
In the words of Wilde: “Ah! that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them.”
It’s never going to happen. So why even bother bringing it up, other than to indulge a personal flight of fancy?
