Did you know that Scott McClellan, longtime White House press secretary under George W. Bush, is the vice president of communications for Seattle University? And has been since August of 2012?

I didn't until Slog reader Holly asked why we had never mentioned that.

McClellan, as Wikipedia reminds us:

... criticized the Bush Administration in his 2008 memoir, What Happened. In the book, he accused Bush of "self-deception" and of maintaining a "permanent campaign approach" to governing rather than making the best choices. McClellan stopped short of saying that Bush purposely lied about his reasons for invading Iraq, writing that the administration was not "employing out-and-out deception" to make the case for war in 2002, though he did assert the administration relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" to sell the Iraq war. His book was also critical of the press corps for being too accepting of the administration's perspective on the war and of Condoleezza Rice for being "too accommodating" and overly careful about protecting her own reputation.

I had also forgotten that the Bush White House responded through one of McClellan's successors, who laid this pathetic egg:

Scott, we now know, is disgruntled about his experience at the White House. We are puzzled. It is sad. This is not the Scott we knew.

Refuting someone's rational (and even-toned) criticisms by dismissing him as merely grumpy?

Sometimes I forget how much I loathed that entire administration and the way it treated the world like its private, dorm-house romper room.

Anyway: A belated welcome to the neighborhood, Scott! If you're curious about what he's doing at his new job, here's an interview about branding.