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Don't Listen To Your Elders

08 May 2008 10:00 am

P.J. O'Rourke gives commencement advice:

All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I'd be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. Imagine deciding the dinner menu by family secret ballot. I've got three kids and three dogs in my family. We'd be eating Froot Loops and rotten meat.

I can't get my mind off P.J.'s belly-button.

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