WHAT A KROC: It was announced yesterday that Joan Kroc, the late San Diego Padres owner and widow of McDonalds founder Ray Kroc, bequeathed $200 million to National Public Radio upon her recent death. The sudden windfall is twice NPR's operating budget for last year, and a spokesperson says they haven't yet decided what to spend it on.
Now what the late Mrs. Kroc chose to do with her vast fortune is of course no one's business but her own (she also left $50 million to Notre Dame). But of all the charitable organizations that could've possibly used that money, the first one that came to mind was NPR?
At any rate, it's my hope that rather than spend the money on more of the usual anti-Israel propaganda, they give a really, really big raise to Sarah Vowell. And what the hell- Garrison Keillor can have some too.