There's a story in the Chicago Tribune today about a flap at Northwestern University Law School.

Apparently a number of asshole students on a committee selected asshole talk show host Jerry Springer to be the commencement speaker this year. Naturally, a number of students objected to the choice, including one smarmy asshole, who said, apparently with a straight face, "I honestly feel like the purpose of a graduation speaker is to inspire you to make the world a better place."

(Inspire yourself, asshole.)

To mollify the smarmy assholes, the asshole committee invited a beloved Northwestern Law professor to speak along with Springer.

But it turns out he is an asshole, too. He defended Springer by saying that Springer is a nice liberal.

"His TV renders him a complex individual," said Dr. Asshole, who admitted he has never seen the Springer Show. "To the extent that students or anyone equates him with completely with that show is just wrong."

When this commencement is inevitably marred by booing and other asshole behavior (and Jerry Springer no doubt dolefully talks about the decline in civility in our society), I won't feel sorry for anyone: These assholes had it coming.