•December 23, 2020•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

I’m sure you’ve been wondering where I fall on the whole Dr. Jill Biden kerfuffle.
I chose “kerfuffle” over “controversy” because it pairs so nicely with “malarkey.”
This issue caught fire a week ago when a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal wrote an op-ed that suggests the first lady-to-be drop the “Dr.” title.
This elicited grenade-lobbing from various people and publications, even the Bidens.
Jill Biden has a doctorate in education. She went to grad school, she wrote a doctoral thesis, she earned her degree.
Joseph Epstein wrote his snarky op-ed in which he said the honorific is a “not unimportant matter.”
What a bunch of malarkey.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.