The thing about an Ivy League education is without even intending you end up having contacts in all sorts of petty power centers, so you get peeks behind the weirdest damn curtains.

The same guy I noticed this through, in maybe 2007 or 2008 I noticed he was going to Peter Suderman’s housewarming, on which page Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein and Megan McArdle (who wasn’t too long removed from blogging [terribly] as “Jane Galt”) chirpily inside-joked to each other about who was bringing the chips and the frisbee.