The Horsewhipping, Er, Game

Wow, that sure was atrocious. Yale couldn't even keep the game within 2 and a half touchdowns to protect the people who bet on them. Patrick Belton does an admirable job trying to spin the results: okay, we got our asses handed to us on the football field, but the YDN had much better Game coverage than the Crimson, and besides, Yale controls the government so who cares about football anyway?

Meanwhile, Matt Yglesias, who belongs to the Bad Guys, tries to spin away the Blue team's iron grip on the levers of power by denigrating the quality of leaders Yale produces. Who was the last Harvard man to become president? Oh, that's right, it was the spoiled, drug-addicted, intellectually lightweight son of a powerful family with embarrassing ties to the wrong side in WWII. Looks like we're not so different after all.