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They paid Hedges for this?! So much for higher education.

If I was a parent with a Rockford grad in the audience, I'd be tempted to send a letter
to the committee that selected Hedges, along with copies to local papers and
to the NYTimes and The Washington Times.

The letter would thank the committee for selecting Hedges. And say that $5,000
was a low-ball price for getting such an excellent "Negative Role Model"
to present to the new graduates. Their life-paths have probably been pushed
onto a true heading of a moral compass by this speech.

And also thank them for putting the Rockford graduates through their final exam...
which they passed with flying colors by expressing their obvious rejection of
Hedges B.S., while showing civilized restraint from tarring and feathering the puke.