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OK, we’ve now entered the “graduation season.” That is the time when all parents and grandparents are subjected to the most inane boring never-ending speeches done by grammar school, middle school and high school graduates.

Now before you all attack me for raining on your individual and highly personal parades, I must say that when one’s child or grandchild graduates from school, it is hard to be especially interested in speeches by all the other kids.

Yes, you are absolutely interested in the speech of your own flesh and blood. But come-on now, after you’ve heard the first few s...