http://toddseavey.com/2007/10/26/retro-journal-blooming-of-an-american-mind/

Jerry

Really included last names the first time people were mentioned — but I don’t expect the short blog (and politics-emphasizing) format will permit divulging all their old secrets, so changing names shouldn’t prove necessary, “Ms. Dashwood.”

Did you not know at the time that *Harvard* also had a “world-class divinity school”?

Did you *really* include the *last names* of Chuck et al. in your college journal?

And, yeah, I turned down Harvard (and five other Ivies, if memory serves) for Brown. Brown wouldn’t make me take French, for one thing. On the downside: communism.

So I wonder that there is no mention of sex or drugs in your journal so far. Heck, when I first went to school, academics were easily behind the pursuit of women and avoiding sobriety. So which is it, Seavey? Were you a chaste monk, or are you leaving out the juicy stuff?

For what it’s worth, I had the same reaction to the rampant left-wing intellectual silliness prevalent on campus (I went to UC Santa Cruz). The knee-jerk anti-Americanism caused a gut contrary reaction on my part. One of my proudest moments was defending the virtues of Western civilization with a four-color Bic pen. It was not a difficult task, considering that pen’s fine blending of style, durability and usefulness, available at low cost to all thanks to the wonders of modern capitalism.

But I digress. Where’s the hooch and the cooch?

But you act as if you entered Brown without any strong political views…clearly you have them; anyone who uses words like “semiotic” at 18 already was on his way to being an activist of some kind.

By the way, do you mean to tell us that you turned down Harvard? Seriously?