Many thanks to K-Lo for bringing Richard Cohen’s ridiculous article to my attention. His claims about the need to experience failure to relate to the failures in our society—itself the sort of demeaning fare that one expects from the media elites–are the kind pabulum soundly crushed in most introduction to rhetoric classes on the first day. (You can almost hear the every-professor: Only those with particular experience can have an informed opinion? Really? Then who can offer an opinion about suicide, other than from the observers’ perspective?) No, Richard, we don’t need more college failures on the bench; we need less of them writing for the Washington Post.