Today's Union-Leader editorial blasting colleges for treating 18-22 year olds like children lands some punches:

At Villanova University, the commencement speaker this year is Caroll Spinney, who plays Big Bird on “Sesame Street.” Commencement speeches can’t get much more simple-minded than “The Wisdom of Big Bird,” which is the title of the book Spinney published last year.

Most colleges attempt to use the commencement speech as the final educational moment in a student’s academic career. When a college uses this important ceremony to subject seniors to simplistic moral lessons suitable for a kindergarten audience, and eliminate early classes so students can sleep in, it shows how little administrators think of the students’ mental and moral aptitude.

What do you do when the kids show up to class in their pajamas? Happens all the time.

Of course, professors could simply lock out the class in protest, like this Italian priest did when his congregation thought his sermons boring, dozed during his talks, and often left early. He went on strike and pinned a terse note on the church door saying the town was not tending to their religious life:

"Let's face it, people take free time whenever they want to," the priest explains.

"They go and play sport and then go out on Saturday nights. But when it comes to Sunday morning, they'd all rather sleep.

"I think it's strange people complain Mass is too long.

"People will happily take a week off to go to the beach, but a little time for God would be better than making excuses."

And, next time you fly, be careful before you eat your salad. There might be a frog in it.