Breaking: the cure for Coronavirus

[PCIntern]

Lyme’s Disease.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Epstein-Barr springs to mind.

Excerpt...

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a couple of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

Donald Barr did not do as well at the Dalton School. According to a 1974 New York Times article, the “controversial” headmaster tendered his resignation after a fight with the board of trustees.

Epstein made new and high profile friends as his wealth grew. Among those friends was now president, Donald Trump. Trump said of Epstein in 2003, “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Source: https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

Ah, the Swells.

[PCIntern]

2. Good one...

As an early Epstein-Barr sufferer, I have stories. I had it before the name was coined...

🥺

[Kid Berwyn]

5. I hope you are doing well, Sir.

In no way was it my intent to make light of a serious medical condition.

My dad was a doc, and, let me tell you, he let me have it when I laughed at a commercial about constipation when I was 16 years of age.

“You don’t make fun from someone else’s suffering.”

Of course, he also turned me on to The Singing Doctors.

[PCIntern]

11. No sweat....

I look back on these things with some amusement.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Me also. Family doc in the early 70's said whaddya have that yuppie disease?

Got results in the early 80's. Always feeling like crap. Computer printout from doc visits--extreme fatigue, extreme fatigue, extreme fatigue, fatigue and malaise, extreme fatigue and upper lower respiratory...

Always getting a damm sore throat sometimes strep.

[coti]

3. On the right looks more like Alan Dershowitz nt

[Kid Berwyn]

8. It is Dershowitz. Sorry about that. It's a great photo.

I meant to bring light to a real cancer on the Constitution, the corrupting nature of a wealthy many.

These bastards have zero shame and think they will get away with their crimes.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. Them and their scene makes me want to puke. eom

[Lord Ludd]

10. Had I not known otherwise, I would've pegged the guy on the left

as Bush the Dumber.

[abqtommy]

4. You can also put de lime in de coconut...

[canetoad]

9. Barr's father didn't resign

He was fired.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-untold-tale-of-young-william-barr

..snip

Ravitch [head of the Dalton School trustees] recounted the denouement. “I brought in the dean of the Harvard School of Education and the head of Teachers College to evaluate Barr. They came back and said that Barr was not the right headmaster for Dalton.” It was a humiliating end to Barr’s years at the school. “I fired him. It took years to get him out, but we did it.”

Barr, as part of an arrangement, announced his resignation; the Dalton yearbook, playing nice, had this to say: “The whole of Dalton owes a great debt to Donald Barr…. We are all greatly saddened by his leaving.” Barr found a new job running Hackley, a more conservative private school in Westchester County. In an interview with the New York Times, he said, “Kids up here are…better-natured and less bitchy.” It was a relief, Barr insisted, to be liberated from the “ego display and radical chic of private-school kids in Manhattan.”

*This was intended as a reply to Kid Berwyn, above.