In America Blog Post Publishes YOU!

I just read something that made me go “WHA!!??”

I was reading this article about Jodie Foster giving a speech at the University of Pennsylvania's commencement ceremonies. Nothing really exciting in the article. Jodie dislikes the administration, yadda, yadda, yadda.

But then I got to the very last paragraph which very offhandedly stated “Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master's degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.”

WHA!!?? First off, Yakov is still in this country? Why? I thought we sent him back home after “Night Court” went off the air.

Second, he holds a master’s degree? And in something meaningful like positive psychology and not something like schlocky joke-writing?

What the hell? Seriously, news stories shouldn’t interject non sequiturs with that head-turning magnitude into their articles. Things like that could give me a mental disorder.