Commencement advice you're unlikely to hear elsewhere

I wish P.J. O'Rourke had spoke at my commmencement. This is the type of advice that would have been productive - and would have got my attention:

1. Go out and make a bunch of money!Here we are living in the world's most prosperous country, surrounded by all the comforts, conveniences and security that money can provide. Yet no American political, intellectual or cultural leader ever says to young people, "Go out and make a bunch of money." Instead, they tell you that money can't buy happiness. Maybe, but money can rent it.There's nothing the matter with honest moneymaking. Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. In a free society, with the rule of law and property rights, no one loses when someone else gets rich.

The whole article is here.

H/T Carpe Diem

Terminated

Tomorrow's Wall Street Journal Editorial page examines the corpse of the California "universal" health care initiative. The supposedly "post partisan" Governator was deemed the perfect doctor to deliver this baby.

What caused even the most liberal legislature in the West to pull the plug? Largely the astronomical cost.

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free."
-P.J. O'Rourke