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As if the Last Couple of Weeks Haven’t Been Rough Enough
My son texted today from college — at Dartmouth, students spend the summer after sophomore year on campus — to say he’d gone to hear an interesting political speaker, illustrating the text with a snapshot.
If I were rich, I’d disinherit him, of course, but what can a poor man do?
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Perhaps he forgot the sarcasm brackets.
Maybe it was this kind of interesting:
How much did she charge?
Haha–Your son has a good sense of humor.
Well Peter, at least you have a book you can hand him that his father wrote to set him straight. It’s more than most parents have
You are already paying for his college education. That’s why you are poor, and will get poorer still, supporting him until he is 30 or 40 or finds a rich wife. Write to that college and demand the portion of the speech fee back as a refund of his tuition.
Ask not for whom your son trolls; he trolls for thee.
Well, you can still disinherit him… It’s the principle of the thing.
Was there any cackling?
I hope your son wore his “Bernie/16” t-shirt and button.
Unless this cretin is getting a full ride, I would suggest a lawsuit demanding recompense for every penny the elder Robinsons have contributed to what could be deemed “wastrel intellectual frittering obtained under false pretense.”
That, plus any legal fees, and possibly punitive damages, as a generalized warning against vacuous self-indulgence by the cultural warriors who bring these Commies to the forefront of the public debate..
There is not a single happy face in that picture. Was that the part where she said, “now I want you to take a minute and imagine an America with me as President”?
Hadn’t thought of it, Vance, but you’re right. Nobody in that picture is enjoying himself, most particularly not the candidate. That says everything, doesn’t it?
What a good eye you have!
Mr. Robinson (ha! that makes your wife Mrs. Robinson, like the Simon & Garfunkel song), forgive me if I’m being a bit of a nudnik, but I wanted to clarify: are you using the pronoun “himself” because that’s what convention would have you do for a generic individual in a mixed-gender group, or are you implying (albeit subtly) that Hillary Clinton is a “himself?”
P.S. Thanks a bunch for this whole Ricochet thing. Wonderful community you got goin’ here, and I’m glad to be a part of it.
Has the picture been photoshopped? Nobody is looking at Her Imperial Highness, and everyone seems to be looking at something off to the left.
Also, it looks like an unlikely mix of people at a campus event.
If your son finds this interesting, you can be confident that he will never fall asleep during a college lecture, no matter how dull.
Fresh from her role in Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1, she’s there because the ignorant masses “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” And make no mistake, she’ll change them.
Interesting in a how can anyone be this boring, dull, out-of-touch and unlikeable and run for President sort of way? Or some other kind of interesting?
You didn’t beat him enough.
He was probably (hopefully?) trying to pick up chicks.
I doubt a Hillary rally would attract many hot chicks.
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Take a close look at the two people behind the woman in the white jacket. Don’t they look like they’re wearing full face masks, or a complete head, like the Coolidge head, only smaller? There’s another person left of hrc’s shoulder that looks the same. Maybe no one wanted to be identified?
“It needed but this.” — Bertie Wooster.
Don’t despair, Peter — he didn’t say he actually enjoyed it! Actually college used to be, and still should be, the place to go and see all kinds of speakers: the good the bad, and the . . . okay, I won’t say that.
By way of contrast, when Obama came to speak at UW-Madison, the only people allowed to attend were those who went to his website and pledged support for his campaign. Like the smiling, compliant human props he always lines up behind his podium, all those permitted access to the presidential presence must be confirmed as having the proper ideological loyalties. It’s beyond creepy.
Those kids behind her look like they’d rather be at the dentist.
Did he get her autograph? She probably told him to get in the back of the line. Probably burst his bubble.
You can always donate him to the Clinton foundation. They’ll take anything, or so I hear…
Hmm, Can’t help but wonder Peter if there was a speaking fee involved and just how much of your hard earned money, through, oh let’s say a Student Activity Fee just found it’s way to the Clinton Foundation.
It could have been worse. He could have gone to a Donald Trump rally.