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The Bob Cesca Show: The Brundlefly of Healthcare

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mmmirele5/10/2017 10:35:04 am PDT

re: #470 Mike Lamb

I don’t know what the fuck the administrators were thinking. At my undergrad and law school graduations, they gave students input on who would be the keynote speaker. Doesn’t appear that student feedback was solicited here.

When I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, I was annoyed that our commencement speaker was the chair of the board of regents, and his plea was to vote for a certain constitutional amendment to the state constitution. It wasn’t until I went to law school two years later and got a handle on the Texas state constitution that I understood why the guy would hijack our commencement for the political announcement, but at the time it was annoying. While I don’t remember precisely what this guy wanted us to vote for, I do remember learning in law school later that the reason married women were allowed to sell their separate property without their husbands’ permission was due to a voter-approved constitutional amendment in 1968. In other words, the Texas constitution has a lot of stuff in it that should be relegated to statute.

However, nobody booed the guy. We were just bored out of our skulls and hot as heck.