Bit o’ the old brouhaha brewing at Notre Dame University, where President Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address May 17. Some Fighting Irish alumni and others are braying that Obama, who supports abortion rights, shouldn’t be the honored speaker at a Catholic school.
My favorite part of this story is where the graduating seniors whine that abortion protests will ruin their special day. To heck with the issues! We’re trying to party here!
The bishop from Notre Dame:
This man looks way too serious and, um, possessed to consider an issue as lightweight as a commencement address.
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Spring Fever Alert: Here in Redding, it’s one of those mild, sunny days that make it extremely difficult to sit indoors at the computer, working.
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DVD I Watched on the Treadmill: “Rendition,” starring Reese Witherspoon as the pregnant wife of an Egyptian man who disappears in an “extraordinary rendition” and is tortured in a foreign country by a guy who looks like Kojak. An oddly slow-paced drama.
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