And how about Bill Cosby speaking in DC, as relates a column in the Washington Post: Cosby, contrasting the achievements of civil rights giants of the past with today’s generation, observed that a lot of “lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids — $500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for ‘Hooked on Phonics.’” And he said a lot more too.

The Union-Leader on the disgrace of politically-charged graduation addresses -- I hadn't heard about Ken Burns at Yale, finger-wagging about "facile judgments of good and evil." What is facile about Saddam's Iraq or North Korea? I don't see much sublety in the diabolical evil there.