Once I met a coach who was famous in college sports, and he hit on me. I was wearing professional clothes (not that profession) in a professional setting, and he immediately started asking me about my career and my professional ambitions and soon he was telling me that I would be outstanding as a TV sports reporter, interviewing players on the sidelines.

Right.

What I remember most clearly was his concentrated gaze of pretended interest in whatever either of us was saying during this brief conversation. Then he said I should come to his hotel room to talk more about my “career.” Do you think I missed my chance at an Emmy?

This must be what it’s like to be a billionaire in politics.

If you’re a billionaire, probably everyone you meet gazes at you with that concentrated, pretended intere

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