GEORGE LEEF: For Many Students, Education Is an Afterthought. “For many young Americans, schooling and credentials matter, but actual education is an afterthought. They have many other things they’d rather do than work to master course material, but since they’ve enrolled and paid, they believe that they’re entitled to good grades and degrees.”

Nothing new about that. As one of my college professors once remarked, education is the only consumer product where most consumers want to get as little as possible for their money.

REPRESSIVE TOLERANCE:

“Remember Vince Vaughn had to apologize for shaking a president’s hand? When Ellen did for sitting next to one?”

Ellen DeGeneres endured a struggle session after cheerfully sitting next to Dubya in Jerry Jones’ skybox at Cowboys Stadium in 2019, only for the Kamala campaign to later aggressively seek his endorsement late in the 2024 election cycle.

SINCE I’VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF NEW SONGS ON THE NO MAN’S LAND SOUNDTRACK, AND THERE’S MORE COMING:  The Clankers did Sing.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.