Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sunday Globe Commencement

Think I'll skip most of it:

"Their degrees are of the honorary ilk, conferred upon them after months of secret deliberations by college officials often hoping to bask in their recipients’ star power.  

AmeriKa is starstruck

Is that why we are having such bad luck?

The awarding of honorary doctorates is a familiar seasonal ritual, the ultimate quid pro quo that grants universities access to luminaries and allows athletes, movie stars, and deep-pocketed philanthropists to claim degrees without any academic sweat.... 

That doesn't seem too hard in dumbed-down AmeriKa. 

And I'm speaking as one who has been through it and gotten the worthless degree!

Same as these guys!

--more--"  

Right now those things are about as valuable as a self-serving Nobel Prize or an increasingly worthless U.S. dollar.