Why, just last week Seattleites were stung by the shame of being omitted from Forbes’s list of America’s Most Brainiac cities [#]. Our bookish outdoorsy pride was crushed by the financial magazine’s lack of appreciation for our high proportion of undergraduate degrees.

Today, CNN puts us back in our rightful place at the top of a meaningless ranking system [#]. The Forbes champion, (Boulder, Colorado) is nowhere to be seen. Yes, as a city, we’re probably all bright enough to see that one study must be using flawed methods, but let’s just agree to be pragmatic enough to just agree with the results that we like best.