General Discussion

I used to run into him at a New Year’s gathering I attend each year. The only rules are “wear your name tag (he did)” and always be civil (apparently he wasn’t). You really have to piss off some very tolerant people to not be invited back, and even then it took a couple of years, but he managed. He was apparently quite nasty to a lot of people there. Arrogance won’t get you anywhere at these gatherings, and the better known you are, the worse it comes off. Only Barbra Streisand had a shorter run. She refused to wear a name tag, saying, “everybody knows who I am.” She just didn’t get it. It wasn’t to harass celebrities. It was to bring everyone to the same level. Bill Clinton, Al Franken and Justice Breyer of the Supreme Court didn’t need name tags, either, but joined in the “I’m no more important here than you are” sentiment, and they always wear their name tags when they attend. Streisand was never invited back after the first year