(Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves Draws Comments From The Nedster; Sapper Replies!

Hi there old buddy. How's it hanging?
The Nedster and I became acquainted at the AP Reading (USHIST) and the summer camp ambience carries into the off-season; male readers revert to adolescence at the Reading. Hence the jocular tone.
We're in the midst of the January Ohio we have all grown to love and cherish: ten degrees with a windchillof below zero. And snow flurries off ever-lovin' Lake Eerie. Schools closed today due to faint-hearted administators afraid to take the heat (pun intended, even if not realized) from parents who don't want their little darlings to be in the least inconvenienced by a little nip in the air. Oh well . . .
The Nedster lives in Willoughby, OH. Hence the Buckeye State references. The Nedster taught Advanced Placement U. S. history for nearly a century in the OH public schools. Texas is near the bottom in academic performance; Ohio is near the top (though not as good as IA or MN). Go figure.
Raced through the latest edition of your R and R and liked McPherson's revisionism article as well the the Dowd article on Mrs. Iowa Ranter Dean. Loved history test although I would have preferred the questions to appear before the answers. If I had been a regular reader instead of an irregular one, I would have seen the questions posted followed by the answers. I didn't miss any, so there's an old fart for you who is not older than dirt; he is dirt.
This was one of my favorite parts of the Nedster's missive. He actually visits (Fair & Balanced) R&R! Again, note the jocularity from a fellow geriatric adolescent.
I'm wallowing in the midst of NCAA basketball and loving it so far. Two frontrunners who should have won last night were clipped at the end of what were otherwise blowouts: UNC beaten by Florida State and U of Kansas by Richmond. The Dookies keep rolling along although I see them getting clipped a couple of times in the ACC.
The Nedster is a Duke alum. He attended Duke when each room had its own colored servant. (His claim, not mine.) Duke has changed a lot since the Nedster's day. However, manic support of the men's basketball team has never diminished. Of course, I don't care for the Duke basketball coach: Special K. He owes so much to Coach Bob Knight (My wacky choice for the best basketball coach in the United States.) and no longer acknowledges that debt. Coach Bob Knight is entitled to be called Coach K, not Kzchzinskzi (or whatever). Duke's coach is a hypoKrite.
I haven't heard from ETS yet though they should begin to get their ducks in a row pretty soon so they can recruit enough of us revisionists to do all their dirty work in June. And Diane should begin girding her loins for all the scandals she is bound to face when all of us reprobates get to Texas and don't know how to behave in the manner befitting Texas. That, of course, lets you out since as a longtime resident, you know better than anyone how to behave.
The first week of June finds the Nedster on the Trinity University campus in San Antonio. Diane is the Chief Reader; a professor of U. S. history at Furman University. There was a bit of a dustup at last year's Reading. A person Irecruited as a Reader was sent home before Day 3 of the Reading. We who remained were lectured—junior high principal-style—about decorum and professional conduct. The Nedster is subversive. He mumbles all sorts of disrepectful things under his breath, but has the appearance of Stan Laurel (modest and unassuming). If Diane sat across from the Nedster at a Reading, he would be sent home on the next bus out of San Antonio. I know because I sat across from him a few years back.
Keep me posted about all the interesting stuff in Texas. And try to back a winner for once in the race for the Texas senate.
I am hopeless. Not only did I vote for Jesse (P*ss-ant)Quackenbush, but I think Coach Knight is the real Coach K. I particularly like Coach Knight's methods of dealing with undergraduate male students.
Keep a song in your soul.

Hasta la fuego.

Condo Lezzie
This is one of my favorite parts of Nedstermail. His closings are always an amazing blend of Spanish and gibberish (Spibberish?) and a funny nom de plume. If this be (fair & balanced) repartee, so be it.