Gosh, how Goche

I never used to brag about my society of professional journalists award. For excellence in journalism. Until America’s newspapers ceased to exist. Now it’s a fun thing to say. An ICEbreaker.

I also never used to brag about my “very high IQ” “top 1% in the nation,” Until, of course, people kept telling me how smart the billionaires were. And they AREN’T people.

I used to think that kind of bragging was gauche. But then I realized Americans just love it more than anything they love to be told other people are better than them and they love to be submissive. They love authority.