Via my blogging partner at Newshoggers, John Ballard, Rachell Maddow’s high school graduation speech:
Rachel Maddow is someone who has actually lived the life she saw for herself at high school graduation – a refreshing exception. I graduated from a middle/upper middle class high school in 1964. Most of us thought we could change the world but most of us really didn’t try. Some of my classmates died in Vietnam. One was killed in the Yom Kippur war. After four years of war protesting in college I ended up working for the DIA after graduation to avoid being canon fodder in Vietnam. A short stint as a dirty fucking hippy after the DIA morphed into a life in the corporate world after I had the responsibility of a wife and children. Alcohol became my drug of choice after drug tests and yes I did like flying in corporate jets. I only found my DFH roots once again when my corporate masters decided they would be better off having someone in China doing my job. I guess that makes me a bitter hypocrite which is what makes me appreciate Rachel Maddow even more. She stuck to her convictions.