re: #219 A Three Hour Tour

This born and bred Virginian hates West Virginia, but that hatred didn’t come until weeks after I had moved there at age 29 when my wife took a job at a now defunct college/university run by an autocratic Trumpian grifter who was once the highest paid private university president in the nation. (Google College of West Virginia/Mountain State University. Also google “Charles Polk” and “Apex Learning” for the former university president’s business ethics philosophy.) I was stuck in West Virginia for nine years. I regard that period as our personal “lost decade.”

Oh, I don’t doubt you for a second. I just don’t “hate” it. Unfortunately though, Trumpism does lend itself very well to WV politics and business. The current governor of WV is out of central casting to play a 19th century robber baron antagonist.