• Remember when Mitt Romney was dubbed a moral monster for putting his family dog on the roof of his family station wagon? Good times, good times!
• But regarding Joe Biden’s vicious rogue dogs Commander and Major (who bit 25 people at the White House before being banished), I demand proof-of-life evidence they are still alive. Maybe we’re going to learn that Gov. Noem’s doggie degringolade is a 3D chess move to expose another Biden mishandling of things.
• And has everybody completely forgotten that Barack Obama once ate a dog?
• Does anyone else think that Trump might actually want to be sent to jail by the judge? It would be the only thing the country talks about 24/7 for the next several news cycles. People might even start to forget about Kristi Noem’s caninicide.
• Will the Dem convention in Chicago in August be a repeat of Chicago 1968? The pro-Hamasniks want it to be, and are apparently organizing. But conventions today, not to mention police tactics, have evolved since 1968 (a much wider perimeter around the convention hall and main hotels for one thing), but a man can hope, can’t he?
Norman Mailer in 1968:
Children and youths, and middle-aged men were being pounded and gassed and beaten, hunted and driven by teams of policemen who had exploded out of their restraints like the bursting of a boil. . . It was as if war had finally begun, as if the gods of history had come together before the television cameras of the world and the eyes of the campaign workers and the delegates’ wives and half the principals at the convention . . . as if the Democratic Party had broken in two before the eyes of the nation.
Let’s hope for a repeat of this feel-good story.
• So now Columbia University has canceled commencement ceremonies. Just as USC already did. Columbia and USC say “safety” and security are the reasons, but I think they really know that, like Michigan over the weekend, the ceremony will be disrupted by protesters among the students. The simple expedient of revoking the diplomas of any protesters seems not to have occurred to anyone, but then you wouldn’t expect it among the spineless invertebrates that run our universities.
But there is perhaps an upside to this. Graduates will be spared the banal bromides of the liberal commencement speakers (like Hillary Clinton or Oprah Winfrey, or Ohio State apparently) typically featured at elite college commencements. I actually pity the poor graduates whose commencements go ahead as usual because the parade of leftist speakers this year will surely reach for some profound bromide about the current moment, and come up with cliches so embarrassing that, to borrow Ray Bradbury’s famous phrase, they won’t even make a sub-moron’s mouth twitch.
Maybe Columbia and USC graduates should breathe a sigh of relief.
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