TPM Cafe guest bloggers answer those pesky questions we've all be wondering about

ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero is joining the yawn-fest over at TPM Cafe this week. As expected, his most recent post is full of probing idiocy, most prominently when he poses this vexing question:

"Yesterday, I was the commencement speaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This was a speech I really struggled with. How do you talk about such weighty issues--the Patriot Act or torture--in an uplifting and event-appropriate way?"

Hmmm. Maybe you could try a novel approach and not talk about them? I've got a question: since when did torture become an appropriate issue for a commencement speech? You'd think after four years of coffee-fueled all nighters and subsequent tests, students would already have a lifetime's worth of experience with interrogation.

But of course, the ACLU approaches everything from an entirely different perspective than everyone else. Romero dubs his speech a success because "no tortillas were thrown" by the students. Well that's a relief. Mexican food projectiles must be a regular problem for him; it sounds like everyone forgot to make a Taco Bell run before the ceremony.