Dear Jolter, Jim G is still away, going door-to-door somewhere this side of the Appalachians, hawking his triumph, Heavy Lifting, which you really ought to buy, capice? What to do on this day of Jim's absence, a day that is filled with campus idiocy? Maybe not call for a pinch hitter, per se, but perhaps someone with a little college ambiance. Someone like . . .the Old Perfessor. 
Charles Dillon Stengel wasn't a bad pinch hitter by the way. Regardless: If Casey were around today, I'd give him the keys to Yale and task him with sending some Ivy League brats -- specifically, Yale's Idiot Children -- down to the minor leagues for a permanent spell. We thank Kevin Williamson for that Yale Idiot essay, which explores just some of the latest insanities at Bill Buckley's old stomping grounds. And of course we give KDW extra thanks for referencing a short but memorable scene from Gilligan's Island, in which Thurston Howell no doubt committed some macro-aggression: 
Elsewhere on the academic front today on NRO, you'll find this: --Ian Tuttle, who was with Kevin at Yale last Friday (as was I, as was Mrs. Fowler, who waded into the throng of braying misfits and gave them what-fer in an incredible performance of public conservatism – Mrs. Fowler for President!) reports on what went down when the aggrieved undergrads tried to drown out the William F. Buckley Program's conference on . . . free speech. --David French examines another Yale outburst by a shrieking social justice warrior. --A terrific Rich Lowry column on the insanity at Mizzou (I like this take: "This is the insatiable voice of children who object at the insufficiency of their coddling. In another outrage, no one powders the bottoms of Mizzou students after they go potty."). --And, NR's Abject Missouri editorial slamming the "extraordinary cowardice" of University of Missouri's now-resigned president Tim Wolfe. Stop the world, I want to get off. Casey, these kids couldn't carry Whitey's glove. Send 'em packing! God bless, Jack Fowler Publisher PS: I almost forgot: David French doubles down with another must-read piece, "Missouri's Lesson: The Campus Wars Are about Power, Not Justice." If you don't read it and share it, you are doing yourself a disservice. | 
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