Jack Abramoff, High-School Bully

Listening to the the introduction to today's superb This American Life, I was mildly stunned to hear Jonathan Gold, food critic for the LA Weekly, describe how (among other petty cruelties) high-school jock and bully Jack Abramoff delighted in pushing Gold and his cello down a flight of stairs back when they both attended the same high school.

I guess we have here another example of how bullies tend to grow up and become felons.

(Of course, Abramoff's attorney denies that such a thing ever happened.)

This American Life is appointment radio for me (Ira Glass and company have done some superb programs on Iraq and Afghanistan, for example), and I recommend it highly to all Kossacks.

Check out PublicRadioFan.com's listings for the next opportunity you may have over the weekend or the coming week to hear the program on-line or on-air (though some stations delay the program by a week, so you might get a different episode at some of those listings); or you can wait, and some time late next week this episode of the show will be available for replay at This American Life's archive.