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Prof. Marion Barry, Department of Chemistry
Sonny already plugged Matt Labash’s great article about America’s most notorious mayor. I second that. The strangest thing I learned about Barry was that he came within one year of finishing a PhD in chemistry.
He was an Eagle Scout. He recited poems in church. He went to college, and stopped one year short of getting his doctorate in chemistry, quitting to join the civil rights movement. “In chemistry, there’s order,” he says wistfully. “In politics, there’s disorder. The rules change just about every other day.”
If only he had become a chemist instead.
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2 Responses to “Prof. Marion Barry, Department of Chemistry”
Now that is also amazing. It is a shame that poison sapped his potential. I know how it happens – I've had my own bright future/dark bottom cycles.
–[In chemistry, there’s order]–
That is because we apply order to disorder so that our monkey brains can understand. Doing the same for politics will require a discipline the American people are to self centered to establish and to lazy to follow.
Marion Barry is a prime example.