The answer is no, because odds are he'll die before you. Except the universe is unfair. So probably he'll just get more and more famous, and then eventually go on a bender and run over both of us with his lexus.

I'm right there with you on the hating. I remember trying to take his class -- I had an easy schedule, and with the fourth year echols thing my registration slot was so early that to fully leverage it I would have had to travel back in time. But one lecture from that guy was all I could take. It was very obvious the semester was going to be all about adoring Larry and how witty he is.

I wasn't willing to drink the koolaid. His mantra -- "politics is a good thing" -- seems to me to ultimately amount to little more than a shrug. It's the same "oh well" attitude that makes economists and closeted-social-darwinists (read: conservatives) so irritating. Best of all possible worlds my ass.