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In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there a
Victor is a parody of somebody. Don't know who it is he's parodying though.
And black. A bridge too far for middle america.
America will never have a black President.
JFK's skin was dyed black after surviving the assassination attempt. He later helped Elvis Presley dispatch a mummy that was tormenting a senior care facility.
This is political bullshit that hurts people that need it the most. Remember DOGE? Lots of fraud finger-pointing but no real fraud found.
But, heh, we'll be getting a new ballroom.....
Officials say $1.3 billion in Medicaid money to California will be deferred over suspicions of fraud
The Republican administration also is imposing a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and warning states to investigate Medicaid fraud or risk losing funding, officials said.
In at least one case, the administration has erred in its accusations against states. In April, CMS acknowledged to The Associated Press that it made a significant error in figures it used to help justify a fraud probe in New York. The acknowledgment deepened doubts in the administration’s methods and raised a common criticism that has been made about the second Trump administration — that it tends to attack first and confirm the facts later.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/po...
NYU students are protesting a graduation speaker because he has called their generation coddled and that colleges have shielded them from being challenged.
Hehe, it's like an article from the Onion
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/po...
NYU students are protesting a graduation speaker because he has called their generation coddled and that colleges have shielded them from being challenged.
Hehe, it's like an article from the Onion
I wouldn't read too much into this. There is a difference between being willing to protest against injustice, which is a very good thing, and having your entire self-image wrapped up in being a protester. At any large university, there will be a small group of people who fall into the second group, and those people will reflexively protest anything and everything. But they are not especially numerous.
I wouldn't read to0 much into this. There is a difference between being willing to protest against injustice, which is a very good thing, and having your entire self-image wrapped up in being a protester. At any large university, there will be a small group of people who fall into the second group, and those people will reflexively protest anything and everything. But they a
I just find it funny. I can only imagine the entitlement at these schools where parents buy their kids' enrollment.
Also from the article:
"In their letter, the students expressed shock that N.Y.U. could not find a speaker “whose scholarship and global contributions more accurately reflect the values and diversity of its graduates.” In past years, they noted, speakers included Taylor Swift, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the lawyer David Boies."
SHOCK, lolololololol
Meanwhile.....
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro...
Cuban officials have blamed the acute fuel shortage on an embargo imposed by the Trump administration following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela earlier this year. President Trump has also warned other countries not to do business with Cuba.
“This dramatic worsening has a single cause: the genocidal energy blockade to which the United States subjects our country, threatening irrational tariffs against any nation that supplies us with fuel,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel wrote in a Wednesday post on the social platform X.
“It is a perverse design whose main objective is the suffering of the entire people, to hold them hostage and turn them against the Government,” he added.
It seems that starving a country is much more tasteful to trump than a government he doesn't like.
I just find it funny. I can only imagine the entitlement at these schools where parents buy their kids' enrollment. Also from the article:"In their letter, the students expressed shock that N.Y.U. could not find a speaker “whose scholarship and global contributions more accurately reflect the values and diversity of its graduates.” In past years, they noted, speak
Going from Taylor Swift or scotus judge to some crappy pop psychologist from your own campus is a pretty embarrassing drop off. I think it’s generally accepted that if you have one of your own faculty do it the committee screwed up or got canceled on.
Going from Taylor Swift or scotus judge to some crappy pop psychologist from your own campus is a pretty embarrassing drop off. I think it’s generally accepted that if you have one of your own faculty do it the committee screwed up or got canceled on.
And David Boies?
Swift and RBG are outliers. A lot of fancy schools give out tons of financial aid because the kids they select are so deserving it'd be ridiculous to price them out.
The non deserving rich kids go to NYU and USC. Exhibit A.
I think a dude from your own campus who isn't a Nobel Prize level guy is the outlier for a place like NYU. If you're not going to go outside just get Hong Wang who's probably months away from becoming the third women to win a Fields Medal.
And David Boies?
Swift and RBG are outliers. A lot of fancy schools give out tons of financial aid because the kids they select are so deserving it'd be ridiculous to price them out.
The non deserving rich kids go to NYU and USC. Exhibit A.
In his heyday, David Boies arguably was the most high profile lawyer in private practice in the United States and indisputably was in the top two or three. There is a reason why he was the lead lawyer in Bush v. Gore.
Going from Taylor Swift or scotus judge to some crappy pop psychologist from your own campus is a pretty embarrassing drop off. I think it’s generally accepted that if you have one of your own faculty do it the committee screwed up or got canceled on.
Maybe they cancelled John Fetterman.
Going from Taylor Swift or scotus judge to some crappy pop psychologist from your own campus is a pretty embarrassing drop off. I think it’s generally accepted that if you have one of your own faculty do it the committee screwed up or got canceled on.
I'd say going from Taylor Swift to a pop-psychologist is an upgrade. Obviously a SCOTUS judge is the best by far.
Its going from an international superstar who sells out 100k+ stadiums on 6 continents to a dude who's been lecturing already three times a week the 4 years you were in college in the next building over that you never bother to attend because you didn't care.
Its going from an international superstar who sells out 100k+ stadiums on 6 continents to a dude who's been lecturing already three times a week the 4 years you were in college in the next building over that you never bother to attend because you didn't care.
I guess I'm more of an elitist than you are. 😀
I'm not a big fan of 'celebrity' commencement speakers. Maybe The Terminator would be an exception because he was also elected Governor of California twice.
I do like Taylor Swift, though.
I’m a man of the people!
Graduations are supposed to be fun and I think you need someone really special to stay on campus for a speaker.
