Posted on 05/04/2008 5:50:39 AM PDT by kellynla
Well, here you are at your college graduation. And I know what you're thinking: "Gimme the sheepskin and get me outta here!" But not so fast. First you have to listen to a commencement speech.
Don't moan. I'm not going to "pass the wisdom of one generation down to the next." I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
We were the moron generation. We were the generation that believed we could stop the Vietnam War by growing our hair long and dressing like circus clowns. We believed drugs would change everything -- which they did, for John Belushi. We believed in free love. Yes, the love was free, but we paid a high price for the sex.
My generation spoiled everything for you. It has always been the special prerogative of young people to look and act weird and shock grown-ups. But my generation exhausted the Earth's resources of the weird. Weird clothes -- we wore them. Weird beards -- we grew them. Weird words and phrases -- we said them. So, when it came your turn to be original and look and act weird, all you had left was to tattoo your faces and pierce your tongues. Ouch. That must have hurt. I apologize.
So now, it's my job to give you advice. But I'm thinking: You're finishing 16 years of education, and you've heard all the conventional good advice you can stand. So, let me offer some relief:
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I thought you might especially appreciate this one.
Self-ping.
Hysterical! Best “in a nutshell” description I’ve ever read about the 1960s generation
That's my reaction whenever I hear some idiot from the UCC or TEC or somewhere yammering about "justice." I pray for God's mercy, not His justice, and if these fools had any self-awareness they would too. Of course, the reality is, they only want "justice" for other people.
I too was/is a member of the sixties college crowd. We were/are a bunch of crybabies who are always on the lookout for the government teat.
Excellent work by O’Rourke. He stills has something in the tank.
Nice!
If I ran a college, I’d invite PJO to be the commencement speaker just to see the lieberal professors and their brainwashed charges go ballistic. That would be more entertainment than even the great PJO could provide.
P.J. also penned the following classic:
“The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know.”
Hitler was an “idealist”. He was also a socialist, a vegetarian, a teatotaller, an antichristian who espoused a preverse, self-serving form of Christianity, a non-smoker, a drug abuser, a hypochondriac, childishly sentimental and a dilettante. He was enthralled by a superficial and superstitious naturalism. If he were alive today and living in Wisconsin, he’d be on the liberal arts faculty of a third rate community college.
I was in college in 1969 and in 1970 I was in the US Air Force (a little thing called Vietnam was playing then).
My, my...what a wide brush you have there...
Speak for yourself...I too was part of the "60's generation" but I when it came time for me to either dodge the draft, wait to be drafted or enlist. I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, served proudly & honorably receiving a PH(legitimately I might add), came home, continued my college education, went to work starting my own business in 1979, paid my taxes, voted GOP every election(sometimes holding my nose while doing it.LOL) and NEVER looked for or received a "government handout", thank you.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
I’d invite him to be amongst the faculty.
PJ is is the best. I still enjoy his books. I’ll have to pick up his latest. I had no idea he was writing for the LA Times.
I think of this one whenever I see some teenaged tattooed freak: “The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”
Ping
I was in college from 1967-1971. Most of my classmates and I were the first members of our family to attend college. We studied and were involved in many activities (I was president of the college Republican club). Most of us went on to have good careers and have done well (mostly because we worked steady).
I think one can generalize a bit too much here. Most of us did not attend prep schools and go on to IVY league schools and major in English, art history, or cultural anthropology.
Fair? You want things to be fair?
Fair is a place you go to eat cotton candy, step in monkeyshit and throw up all over the Bomber Kites ride.
Humor ping!
Little Goth: I'm not doin' it either. I'm the biggest nonconformist of all.
Tall Goth: I'm such a nonconformist that I'm not going to conform with the rest of you [goths]. Okay, I'll do it.
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