Audio of the entire BYU alternative commencement

I wrote in an earlier post that Pete Ashdown's speech was one of the best of night of amazing speeches. I  have received permission from Pete to  repost his speech here.
( Pete Ashdown's alternative commencement speech )

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Every once and a while something inspiring happens. That moment is a rare thing in Utah, and perhaps the rest of the country as well. It's even more inspiring when it comes from the mainstream media. These days,  the corporafication of the media and the attempts to stretch coverage as far right as possible to avoid the dreaded and disingenuous ( Read more... )

I'm not a big fan of sports. In fact I think that sports bring out the worst in us, and what I see as the "sports mentaility" is, in my opinion, very destructive -- but that's another post.

That being said, I probably wouldn't have protested REAL's plans if they had been able to prove that it wouldn't be opperated at a loss to taxpayers.

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