Very nice time here in St. Louis. Thanks to the Young America’s Foundation and the University of Missouri-St. Louis College Republicans for having me out. The audience seemed to be mostly NR fans and other non-students. Not shockingly, everyone turned out to be extremely nice and everyone seemed pleased with the balance of substance, humor, nudity and substantially humorous nudity. Went out for beers with a great bunch at some very divey Irish place called Whalen’s afterwards. Thanks to everyone for the nice follow-up emails and all that (it’s always nice to hear people didn’t think it was a waste of their time). And special thanks to the longtime NRO reader who — I am not making this up — baked me a batch of brownies and bought my daughter a St. Louis Cardinal’s cap.

Good times, good times.