To the graduates:
You may be short of time in the next few weeks, short of cash, low on energy and running out of steam, but one thing’s for sure: You’ll not lack for advice. Your teachers will give you bits of parting counsel as you walk out of their classroom a final time, your parents have been pumping you full suggestions since the day you were born and you’ll no doubt receive a heavy dose at your commencement ceremony.

Greetings from the Ridge.
Don’t laugh until you’ve heard me out. It might be one of the strangest ideas you’ve seen to bust loose the legislative constipation that’s got its hold on the halls of the U.S. Congress, but it just might work.
Anyone who’s diverted his eyes away from his text messaging in the last couple of years knows that we are paying millions of bucks a day for a Congress that’s pretty much worthless. No matter whether you vote blue or red you know that lobbyists and the hopes for the next election have completely erased any hope of good sense ruling in the House or the Senate. Pure vindictiveness has taken the place of patriotism. I therefore propose the following: