Don't people know that commencement speeches are very serious business?
This past Saturday, Tom Brokaw, the former NBC Nightly News anchor and the author of "The Greatest Generation," gave the 2016 Commencement Address before the University of Mississippi's 2016 graduating class were conferred their degrees. His commencement address, like the overwhelming majority of commencement addresses, was likely a heap of platitudes peppered with an anecdote or two, and a charge for those in the audience to not be a dang loser and do something with their lives. That is to say that his commencement address was very likely not particularly remarkable, other than the fact that he, a legendary American journalist who was once a guest lecturer at Ole Miss, was the person delivering it.