I was thinking he was a buffoon well before that point. He sounds like one of those people who constantly mentions, unbidden, how they didn’t go to university and are therefore smarter than anyone who did.
(Wikipedia says he did in fact attend a university, and no, he’s no relation, though I bet his last name is 50% of how he managed to land a writing gig at even an unknown website)
(Though I’m only going by this one article; perhaps he was having an off day)
