Checked the mail yesterday and

still no Pulitzer.

Ah but Monday is another day and I am still young by the standards of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


Now...if the only way I could collect on that award was still on a podium quietly and suffer thru a speech by Former President Bush or worse...Mitt Romney hell I'd do it.
I'd even make polite noises afterwards.
Why?
In my time I've had to works productively next to outright falangists, people weirder than Mitt Romney in every way, one learns to cope.
Jeff Jacoby though, the Globe's Laughing Young Senescence, holds a different view.
He applauds Harvard Professor Mary Glendon's decision to decline an award from Notre Dame as it would entail listening politely to President Obama's commencement address.
Churlish and stupid sez I, it isn't about Obama's views on abortion (which Professor Glendon abhors) it all about making a big self indulgent scene on behalf of one's ideology.
This sort of crude narcissism, Jacoby calls "courage".
Frankly all I can say to Professor Glendon is, wayward sister go in peace.
Movement conservatism abounds with theatrical rubbish like this, GOP stalwarts are never more unconvincing when they start swanning about in this fashion. It is idiot dram queen antics like this that got them smacked down hard last fall, anyone else recall Senator McCain's silly melodramatic campaign suspension when the bailout bill came to a vote?
This whole sad situation only rebounds to President Obama's credit...as always he is sane cool and unfazed while every one of his opponents goes cavorting in the limelight like druken Nibelungs.
As for Jeff Jacoby, he is never more laughable than when he pimps out for the Vatican's Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, you'd think he was a 20 year usher at Saint Muldoons or something.