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Surviving the Pandemic: ‘Who Was That Masked Man?’ (Hint: No Longer the Lone Ranger)
Stupid don’t know they’re stupid.
A million years ago, I wrote a novel with a Mafia guy. It was fascinating to hear how he put together the largest cash burglary in the history of Chicago, and how he got arrested for a zillion felonies, and how everyone in his crew was convicted. But not Luigi — he’d built his defense into the crime. “An unaccountable acquittal,” the judge said. Wrong: the crook was super-smart.
Not these crooks. They’re stupid. How stupid? This stupid: So stupid they don’t know they’re stupid. Trump thinks he’s an NFL Quarterback and Nobel Laureate and Hollywood A-Lister and Sex God — all in one gigantic body. And now, on the podium, the newest star on “Trump Time,” a nightly unreality show: Jared Kushner.
Mark the date: April 2nd was the worst day so far — Jared now seems to be in charge of everything.
Oh, but he went to Harvard? Here’s how:
In 1998, when Jared was attending the Frisch School and starting to look at colleges, his father had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard, to be paid in annual installments of $250,000. Charles Kushner also visited Neil Rudenstine, then Harvard president, and discussed funding a scholarship program for low…
