LIGHTS OUT

SOME MORE OF PATRICK'S LITTLE BUDDIES FROM MYSPACE DOGBOOK. PATRICK NOW HAS OVER 300 FRIENDS, AND THERE ARE NOW OVER 13,000 JRT'S WITH PAGES ON THE SITE! WHAT FUN FOR A LITTLE DOGGIE!

It is 5:54 a.m. and 68.6 degrees out. Patrick is asleep at my feet curled up on his afghan.

Our power went out last night during a big thunderstorm, so we had to rough it. No hot food, no water, no lights, no TV, no cold beer, no computer. Just battery radio and torches. So, what to do? go to bed.

Oh, don't worry--for our emergency end-of-the world supplies, we have 5 gallons of drinking water, 30 gallons well water for the dogs, and and endless supply of Vienna sausage tins with pop tops...

From our special pal, Newt Gingrich:

Could Hitler Come to the New School? 'Yes, If He Was Dead.'

By way of history, you should know that the New School is a university that from its very founding has been dedicated to academic freedom and democracy.

During the 1930s, the New School was a haven for intellectuals and artists who had been banished by the dictatorships of Hitler and Mussolini.

And after World War II, the New School was the first academic institution to establish a program designed specifically for returning soldiers to complete their education. For those who had sacrificed to serve their country, the New School offered the opportunity to get ahead in civilian life tuition-free. It remains today an all scholarship college.

And so it came as no surprise that when I asked New School President Kerrey if he would have allowed Adolph Hitler to come on his campus, his reply was powerfully blunt:

"Yes, if he was dead."

It's a standard that I agree with wholeheartedly. It's too bad that the leadership of Columbia University hasn't learned the lesson of the New School: America honors freedom of expression by being a refuge for the oppressed, not by giving a soapbox to the oppressors. This is not about free speech, the Iranian dictator can stand on any New York City street corner and say what he wishes, but we do not need to legitimize his hate-filled holocaust-denying diatribes by giving him a platform at a "distinguished" lecturer series at Columbia.

REVENGE! GO GATORS! BEAT AUBURN! SOW THE WIND, REAP THE WHIRLWIND! GO GATORS! WELCOME TO THE SWAMP, SUCKERS! THIS IS SPARTA! WE ASK FOR NO QUARTER AND WE GIVE NONE!!!