Napalm sticks to kids

• Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal has been honored as a commencement speaker (via audiotape) at Antioch College, Evergreen State University, Occidental University and the University of California-Santa Cruz.


• Susan Rosenberg, an advocate of "collective violence" against the U.S. government, was caught with nearly 700 pounds of explosives in 1984, and went to prison to begin serving a 58-year term. She was pardoned by Bill Clinton, then hired as a writing instructor by Hamilton College in upstate New York, the institution that gave us Ward Churchill. Her course was in "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change."


• Bard College notoriously maintains a chair in social studies named for Alger Hiss, the communist spy, traitor and perjurer. This is perhaps the stupidest honor given anywhere in America. The University of Washington's Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is named for the late and powerful labor leader, who was a communist, a perjurer and an apologist for Stalin.


• Last year the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York announced a new scholarship named for Ho Chi Minh and another honoring Joanne Chesimard, the former Black Panther and convicted murderer of a New Jersey police officer. Both scholarships were quickly renamed after protests.


• Stanford Law School paid Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who had been indicted for aiding Islamic terrorists, to speak and mentor students at a conference. After loud complaints, the school withdrew the word "mentor" from her conference title, but let her conduct mentoring and deliver her lecture anyway. Since then, she has been convicted on all five counts of conspiring to aid terrorists and lying to the government.


• Villanova University installed a memorial plaque honoring a professor who killed her Down syndrome baby and herself in 2003. After protests, including some from parents of Down children, the plaque was removed. A spokesman said, "At no time did the university nor anyone associated with the university intend to devalue the sanctity of life."


• And we have the awards that many Austrians and other Europeans wanted to bestow on Tookie Williams, the unusually vicious multiple murderer who was executed in California late last year. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace prize by opponents of the death penalty, and when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger denied Williams clemency, a drive began to remove Arnold's name from an Austrian sports stadium and dedicate the building to Tookie instead. Awards are the new frontier of moral confusion.

I was on my home and was on the ramp getting off the highway. I saw a mini-van on the side of the road. There was a lady standing next to the van and in her arms she held her child. I can only assume her mini-van had broken down. I don't know, perhaps with so many gas stations being out of gas, she had also run out. I slowed down and started to pull over to offer her a ride. At the very last second I noticed a "W" sticker on the back of her vehicle and I sped up and drove off.