So, firstly, I must agree with @ChaosEngine, a commencement speech is no place for political commentary. A commencement speech's purpose is to allow one who has paved a complex path through life and come out on top, or one who has overcome something great, (and) has a important lesson for those less-learned to share their knowledge, that it may be used for good.

(God that sentence is long, let me catch my virtual breath...)

Next, why, if he is to provide political commentary during a commencement speech, as so many do nowadays, does he slam Trump?

Anybody? Is it his hair? Is it his puffy little face? Is it because he looks like a pumpkin? No? Perhaps its because he is a disaster waiting to happen, because that seems to be the general sentiment from many people who are allowed to speak their minds en-masse nowadays...

But how is Trump worse than Clinton? Hmmm? Perhaps there are buried rape cases THAT WERE MADE PUBLIC BTW, in Trump's past? No?

Perhaps making billions of dollars FROM ONE MILLION is just inherently evil? Hmmm, no?

Okay, that Hairdo, it must burn a hole in the Ozone layer wherever he walks... Or flames must flower at his feet, as lotus flowers did for the Buddha? NO?

Perhaps he was wrong about the people that you blokes are letting into the country? Yes? Then how come one of them, (whom you could never tell is a radical, HE HAD A WIFE AND CHILD), just killed 50 members of the LGBT community in the horrible massacre in Orlando?(which was so bad we are getting news coverage of it in LONDON)

Hmmm, maybe electing someone who actually admits there is a problem, destroying political correctness, and being damned with the "established order" which supposedly keeps you Americans safe isnt such a bad idea...

Maybe electing a Woman with a hideous blot of a record, and a long standing member of said establishment is one such bad idea...

Anyone with that hairdo should be rounded up and lead to the death camps. That will solve more issues than banning tipping.

I thought the same. It could be that we are done innovating and looking to the past now instead, or just that culture has not decided on a distinctive 2000's or 10's hairdo yet.

Wow, she looked older with her original hairdo. I still need to see this movie.

*talks

I am not crazy about her new hairdo.

He was obviously picturing a cube when asked about a square.

An ankle watch? Now there's something I've never seen before.

Who's that lady who asks him about his watch? I like her hairdo.

No shit!-There's gotta be at least 10 examples of Dawkins arguing the case for his camp with non-non-believers here on the sift-Goddamn, Amy Goodman!!...Please do something with that mop of starving peasant hairdo you rock like you never cared...Jeeeez!..and maybe a sprinkle of cosmetics and better posture?? She has that, "Slept in My Clothes" look goin' alla time too, innit??!

Righto, David. Lose the beard and the Hitler hairdo.

I grew up in Finland and went to school there. Yes, some kids were bullied and none of the teachers ever noticed some of that. It didn't happen in the school, but when I was on the second grade n(elementary school), I definitely had two biys bullying me for a while. After school ended and we had to walk home, they'd follow me, push me around, scare the crap out of me. I was the only child and very quiet, timid, easy to scare.

Those boys really scared me, I remember just running off and grabbing the arm of a woman walking home from the store, to make the boys think I knew her. It eventually got bad enough that I just refused to go to school. My mom didn't understand what was going on, and she threw a frigging fit that scared me even more. But still, I refused to go to school.

Eventually it all came out. I eventually talked to my parents, and my mom came to observe this after one schoolday. She grabbed the kids when they started attacking me and scared the crap out of at least one of them. He was nice after that, he just said 'please don't tell my parents, I didn't know I was really scaring her!" My dad went to talk to the other bullys parents on one night, and they had no idea he was doing that. My parents had a talk with my teacher too. I was left alone after that (and luckily thye worse kid actually moved away before too long). It wasn't anything too bad, but at that time, it was awful. Some kids maybe just not realize what they are doing. And the parents really had no idea.

Teaching kids bullying is bad should really start at a young age. You have to make them realize what they nare doing is wrong, and how wrong it can be.

On junior high we had a girl who me and my friends made fun of. We thought it was just a 'fun' thing to make comments about her hairdo, or things like that. We were still 'friends' with her, but I bet she hated us. I myself never realized that little comments like 'your hair looks like a sausage roll', even when made in a 'friendly way' hurt her.

I didn't even realize that until I was way older! If I could go back in time, I'd never make those comments! We all thought we were just being funny, but little things like that can also hurt. I am not sure how one could deal with things like that, but we all should just be taught that little things can hurt. It doesn't have to be pushing and hurting, it can be just silly little remarks, and I know I will feel bad about all that for the rest of my life!

Bullying of even that kind usually stopped (mostly) after people graduated from Junior high, and went to either highschool, or vocational school. I went to highschool, so I have no idea how life in a Finnish vocational school is (we were told horror stories though, that vocational school woulod be really bad and everybody was being bullied to death, but I think it wasn't true, or at least not today).

To me watching American TV shows about high schools, and seeing kids bullying, being bullied and so on, was awful. To me, high school was a whole different planet. Kids were trying to be nice, or at least more adult-like, and bullying wasn't there. At least according to the TV shows, High school is bullying heaven! And all about cliques! Maybe because we really didn't have jocks or cheerleaders, it was better? No drama clubs, glee clubs.. You might have bene classified as a 'nerd', or a 'good girl', but at least not too many peoiple were outcasts in my school. And if they were, it was because of their personality, not because of what they wore or were interested in.

It really breaks my heart to know kids are bullied so bad they feel like the only way out is to kill themselves.

People will need to care more, to put themselves in anothers' shoes. When you are a kid, it can be hard. But I think it should start from the home, and schools should try to do whatever they can. People just need to understand how it feels, and how you'd feel if somebody did that to you, or to your loved one.

Excuse the rant, my dog has gotten me up at wee hours (around 4:30am, though this morning she graciously let me sleep until 5:15am) every night for quite a while and I am seriously lacking sleep and can be emotional and/or weirdy irritated and grumpy, not to mention insane.

I for one am appalled at the appearance of the blond "woman" in the fuchsia dress. That hairdo alone is responsible for 20 cancer deaths in Australia.

This deserves a *downunder

>> ^Trancecoach:

It's like the hair of someone who was pretending to be from the future.. in the '80s!
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>> ^Trancecoach:
those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)

Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...



Or she's old school and thinks she is still in the 1980s/80s. I can't remember if she was on that news station back then. Maybe she was like in 1989.

It's like the hair of someone who was pretending to be from the future.. in the '80s!

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>> ^Trancecoach:
those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)

Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...

>> ^Trancecoach:

those 80s hairdos were just amazing.
(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)


Hehe, I recognized her. She is Colleen Williams from KNBC4 in Los Angeles/L.A.: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/about-us/Colleen_Williams.html ...

those *80s hairdos were just amazing.

(even tho this technically took place in the 90s, I'm going to say it's 80s and let it stand)