And then I wrote...

by Dick Schilling, "Editor Emeritus"

... that this column will appear in the Nov. 9 edition, which means by now you all know who won the election. Lucky you, either way. It will be another week for me. Did the sun come out today, a la Annie?

You will also know how the Chicago Cubs came out in the World Series.

Or maybe not!

Thanks to a story on public radio Sunday morning, I learned that author W. P. Kinsella (Sp?) wrote an essay entitled The Last Pennant Before Armageddon. It says that when the Cubs finally win the World Series, the world will end the next day.

Did it? If so, disregard the first sentence of this column, because there was no “tomorrow” for Annie or anybody else.

Leftist Garrison Keillor has written a column saying that Donald Trump, if he loses, should run for governor of Iowa.

The implication is the same as that expressed by Rekha Basu in Sunday’s Des Moines Register, that is, that there are enough lowans who are dumb enough to vote for Trump.

Basu says only the poorly educated favor Trump.

“Smart” people, that is, those who are college educated, are smart enough not to favor Trump.

As a college graduate, I am not at all certain that all college grads are smarter than all those who did not go to college, but that’s a discussion for another day.

But a recent study sheds light on why it may be true that those with college degrees are mostly more liberal.

It’s because that’s all they have been taught!

The study, by an economics professional journal, shows that in college history, journalism and communications departments, not a single instructor was a registered Republican. Not one of the almost 7,300 studied.

The economics publication notes that things are better in their profession, but not much. The ratio was four liberals to one conservative.

Study wide, there were about 3,600 registered Democrats and 300 registered Republicans, with the rest listed as varied. But Green Party and Working Families Party registrations exceed the total for Republicans!

It did not count Socialists, but probably should have! Especially in the area of economics, since that is what was being taught even when I took econ in 1953-54 at Iowa.

When you only hear one side, you only learn one side.