To our newly minted Kennett High School graduates: as a former Padawan of this most august Jedi Academy, I extend to you my sincere congratulations.
And now that we’ve dispensed with these pleasantries, let’s get down to business. The Republic is in great peril, and our future happiness and well-being depend on you not being an idiot.
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A grown man who fantasizes about being a Jedi knight and have a light saber. Hmmm. I saw star wars when I was 16. It was good. I've grown up. If you grads are listening to a grown man who still fantasizes about light sabers, maybe you will drink his cool aid. If you become a 'thinker', you'll reject this clown.
Please, please, please, Conway Daily Sun!
Enough already. Make it stop!
If I have to be subjected to another ludicrous, verbose, "Q" tome I may have to cancel my subscription to keep my brain from bleeding.
You should be able to find a better representative of the local pulse who isn't so condescending, supercilious, or egotistical.
Wow! What a work of self congratulatory moral and intellectual superiority! Maybe sometimes check yourself and take a good long look at what and how you are saying your opinions. There are many people on this earth, and you have insulted a great many of them. How you manage to condescend to us is appalling! And this is coming from someone who considers myself very to the left.
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