Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has come under fire for rejecting a bill renaming US Highway 14 "Ronald Reagan Highway," on the grounds that Reagan has nothing to do with Wisconsin. Today's WaPo profiles the push for Ronald Reagan University, which a coworker tells me will feature not so many "academic faculty" as "distinguished speakers," which in turn is more or less the story of supply-side economics. (At the same time, I always wished I'd been able to major in Star Wars.) Try asking a DC cabbie to take you to "Reagan" airport rather than "National" and see where you end up.
But a vastly larger slate of honorifics awaits Reagan once he passes from this plane. We'd all do well to get very comfortable with that fact now. I have a feeling that my kid's gonna be sharing classes with more than a few Ronnies. I imagine that if conservatives get their way with all the griping about liberalism in academia, our children will no doubt be studying Reagan's SW program—but I'm confident that my li'l Chewbacca will outperform any Ronald in his grade.
Posted by Kriston at April 28, 2004 4:57 PM