The Xaverian Brothers, who set themselves to educate me in high school, were death on the idea of very tight pants. One of them referred to “cheap hotel pants.”

Cheap hotel pants?

Yes, no ballroom. Rim shot.

(Of course, none of them could match LBJ on the subject.)

Anyway, speaking of ballrooms, the president’s Gilded Palace of Sin (thanks, Gram) has begun to draw some attention to its corporate backers, and to the possible motivation behind their contributions to this tribute to architectural elephantiasis. From The Wall Street Journal: .

[Elizabeth] Warren (D., Mass.), Rep. Dave Min (D., Calif.), and a group of other Democratic lawmakers noted in letters to corporate executives Thursday that many of the donors supporting the $250 million ballroom under construction at the Wh

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