The raspberry statement

The Daily Standard has posted my column on Major E.’s correspondence with PepsiCo regarding Indra Nooyi’s Columbia Business School commencement speech: “The straight story.” Standard online editor Jonathan Last supplies the subhead: “An American soldier tries to get PepsiCo to answer a simple question.” (Jonathan hangs his blog shingle out at Galley Slaves.)
For a twist on Nooyi’s metaphorical world hand in connection with events this week in Europe, check out “The European finger…Dutch vote nee“ at Charmaine Yoest’s Reasoned Audacity. See also Victor Davis Hanson’s Washington Times column: “Death throes…”