I love commencement addresses. Of course, I’d rather give them than sit and listen to them, but I’m still a fan. This weekend, we had Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak give UC Berkeley grads two formulas for happiness:
1) Happiness equals S minus F (smiles minus frowns).
2) Happiness equals F cubed — food, fun and friends.
Wozniak added: “I had to admit there might be a fourth ‘F.'”
Then there was funny man Stephen Colbert at the University of Virginia, who joked about Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings.
“In public life, we often see Jefferson as the embodiment of White male patriarchy,” Colbert said, “but in his private life, he was known for, shall we say, embracing diversity. Very affirmative in his actions. Am I right? I am right. They did the DNA tests.”
But the best commencement speech this week, by far, was the one delivered by President Obama at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
