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PETER J SCHOTT's avatar

What a great speech.

One of my kids graduates from Boston University this coming weekend and I wish they had gotten Seinfeld.

I would have been delighted by such a thoughtful, lighthearted and mercifully short address.

[God only knows what torture awaits me on Sunday]

As for the miserable scolds who felt the need to depart, I'm sorry they missed out on a truly unique part of their special occasion. I hope they get a chance to open their minds and listen to a set of ideas they may not agree with.

Clearly a skill they did not obtain while at Duke or any other institution.

Seinfeld was spot on about humor. Humor is the antidote to the arrogant seriousness of wokeness.

Without humor everything is a hardship, insult, attack or injury. Humor tempers the issue and softens the blow.

Humor, especially the self-deprecating kind, is a remarkable part humbleness, a key quality of being a good human being,

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JPWfEVG's avatar

To paraphrase H L Mencken, A scold is someone who is worried that somewhere someone is having a good time.

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