Maverick!

Garland's guest this hour is an LSU professor who just told me John McCain "has always been a maverick" He also says that McCain should be careful of running "too far to the middle" but that both Hillary and Obama may have trouble appealing to the all-important "moderate voter".

Now I'm an LSU grad. And I tend to think that within certain parameters a quality education is more a function of what the student puts into it than the presumed "quality" of one or another institution. But this embarrasses me.