Bennington College is a private college in Vermont that costs $66,000 per year, plus fees, which adds up to over $75,000 per year. They claim to provide generous financial aid, but most kids (of their 660 undergraduate students) pay most of that amount. It is known for not giving grades, and having generous interpretations of what constitutes a class. Or rather, a “learning experience.” Do you want to visit family in Italy for the spring? No problem. Submit a paper about whatever you did, and you get credit for the semester. If Drew Carey were promoting this school, he would say, “Where the classes are made up and the grades don’t matter!” This college is (surprise!) even more leftist than the average American college.

My wife’s nephew (Justin – not his real name) attends this institution, and he is even more leftist than the average American kid. After not hearing from him for some years, Justin took to social media and called his own grandmother (my mother-in-law) a racist. For no apparent reason other than to illustrate his own virtue. My daughter (his cousin), saw it on social media and told her grandmother. Her grandmother did not respond well to this attack. So Justin is upset at us now. So after not hearing from him for some years, my wife gets the following message from him on social media:

”Hey! Congrats on your new graduates! I hope all is well. I’ve noticed that you haven’t really said anything (on FB at least) about Black Lives Matter and that I think it is super important to speak out! This very second people are out there fighting for you and your children to live in a more just and equitable world and I think it’s super important to speak out about defending the defenseless! Here are some resources because I know that starting the conversation is hard!”

Kudos to @Philo and all who commented on his excellent post, “Russian Roulette With the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs?” I thought about that post last night and this morning before I sat down to the keyboard.

I believe that everyone is aware of the theater that was played out concerning the “hurtful” remarks of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. Some of the plainest vanilla language that could be imagined was quickly blown out of all proportion and the outrage mob was so effective that Brees quickly apologized (twice) for his totally innocuous remarks. (I saw this morning, that Brees’ wife had also apologized. I assume their children will soon be trotted out for their turn at self-abasement.)

What do hardcore leftists want? They want revolution. They want violence and mayhem. They want to tear down the whole system, so they can get in power and exact revenge. So color me skeptical that Keith Ellison was being a tool when he upped the charges against the police who killed George Floyd.

[Andrew McCarthy] believes Ellison might have just colossally screwed up his case against the cops. My words, not his. McCarthy called Ellison’s amended charges “dangerously flawed.”

First from Reuters on May 30:

The new coronavirus is losing its potency and has become much less lethal, a senior Italian doctor said on Sunday.