Meanwhile on the International front....

Sure, that's just the origin of the copycat.

 

Free speech = freedom to claim a public space in perpetuity.

School's out in a few weeks just about everywhere. At that point, when there aren't any profs cheering it on or administrators to emotionally bully, the protests will simmer down a bit.

At least, until Chicago.

 

It's about to get hot. I'm thinking that standing in the University Green and those tents in particular will become uncomfortable very shortly.

 

There have been a few mentions of Chicago in the summer. Nothing is going to happen. Boston, post 9/11 and with Iraq War protests, was shut down to within an inch of its life in 2004. Nobody is doing nothing.

 

What is Israel’s long term plan for maintaining support? Because they wouldn’t collect $10 in American aid if it weren’t for its starring role in the Bible, and this country is becoming more secular by the hour. They might be 20 years away or less from being told to kick rocks by Washington.

 

Geez, I would've been so angry at that. It was a long, hard road to my bachelors degree and that diploma, with me taking several years, and working around the schedules of a couple of internships and a couple of unrelated jobs, including one on overnights, to get it. I don't brag about it, but I've always taken pride in actually finishing the work and completing my degree, and have always been glad I did so.

Now, I tout it to the next-generation family members as an achievement -- and one of the few things in life that, once accomplished, can never be taken away from them.

This is something they probably won't think, or realize, when they're younger, on graduation day. But later on, I tell them, they'll probably come to appreciate their own efforts, and a success that they will have earned, regardless of whatever else happens in life. Students tend to denigrate the diploma as just "a piece of paper," or a box to check in the quest for a bigger salary. But there is real intrinsic value in earning a degree, as well.

TLDR: So, I probably would've been putting a complaint in on that mailman at the post office.

 

I'd say the majority of people who say a college diploma is just a piece of paper don't actually have one. It's no different than those who say say an associates degree from local community college is just as good as a degree from major SEC land grant state university.

I have my bachelors diploma from state university, masters from private liberal arts college, and my honorable discharge certificate all on the same wall at home (and copies on a wall at work). Discharge certificate holds the place of honor.

 

Rename themselves Ukrainrael?

 

I didn't really get what it meant, either, until I was on the stage for my J-school graduation.
We had a big ceremony with several thousand graduates that, thank God, they didn't try calling out any names for. Then they sent everyone on their way to do ceremonies for all the different colleges/majors, which was probably a couple hundred for the J-school. On the stage I saw my parents and sister sitting in the audience, they were all proud and smiling, and I had the moment of clarity that this was a big deal because I think me and my sister were the only ones in our family at the time who had gotten degrees. I know my parents sacrificed a lot to help us get them. And it hit me that it was bigger than a piece of paper, bigger than me. It was a big accomplishment to get that piece of paper. It was a culmination of a literal lifetime of work to that point, and not just by me but by a lot of other people invested in my journey.
Anybody who says "it's just a stupid piece of paper" and it doesn't mean anything ... man, I just can't fathom that.

 

VCU checking in.

 

It sure sounds like the ICC is going to drop a bunch if indictments of both Hamas and Israelis. That's going to be fun.