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The Monday Morning Memo

 

“Graduates, faculty, parents, relatives, undergraduates, and old people that just come to these things:  Good morning, and Congratulations to the Dartmouth class of 2011.

Today you have achieved something special, something only 92% of Americans your age will ever know… a college diploma. That’s right. With your college diploma, you now have a crushing advantage over 8% of the workforce.

I am talking about dropout LOSERS like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Before I begin, I must point out that behind me sits a highly admired president of the United States and decorated war hero, while I, a cable television talk show host, have been chosen to stand here and impart wisdom. I pray I never witness a more damning example of what is wrong with America today.

I would like to thank President Kim for inviting me here today. After my phone call with President Kim, I decided to find out a little bit about the man. He goes by President Kim, and Dr. Kim. To his friends, he’s Jim-Kim J of the K… Special K… JK Rowling… the Just-Kidding Kimster… and most puzzling, Stinky Pete.

He serves as the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He spearheaded a task force for the World Health Organization on global health initiatives. He won a MacArthur Genius Grant, and was one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2006.

Good God, man! What the hell are you compensating for?”

– Conan O’Brien,
delivering the Commencement Speech at Dartmouth University

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“An appalling conviction of his helpless, hopeless peril struck a chill to Conrad’s heart like the chill of death itself. What power on earth could save him! To disprove the charge, he must reveal that he was a woman; and for an uncrowned woman to sit in the ducal chair was death! At one and the same moment, he and his grim old father swooned and fell to, the ground.

[The remainder of this thrilling and eventful story will NOT be found in this or any other publication, either now or at any future time.]

The truth is, I have got my hero (or heroine) into such a particularly close place, that I do not see how I am ever going to get him (or her) out of it again–and therefore I will wash my hands of the whole business, and leave that person to get out the best way that offers–or else stay there. I thought it was going to be easy enough to straighten out that little difficulty, but it looks different now.”

- Mark Twain, the surprising ending of "A Medieval Romance" (1870)

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