Where Was I?

I am very annoyed at myself over how easily I am distracted from important ideas and concerns. As I awoke this morning, I found myself thinking about yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer editorial piece on today’s high price of college tuitions. I am in complete agreement with the Inquirer’s position that the costs are far too high. Imagine! My total tuition cost for my three years at Rutgers Law School in Camden amounted to fifteen hundred dollars back in 1966. Today, a law school student at that same school will spend about sixty seven thousand dollars over a three-year period for the exact same law degree. If one does the math regarding tuition costs followed by first year salaries in 1966 versus the same comparison today, one can see that those of us going through college and graduate school in the 1960s were not nearly as burdened by tuition costs, as are the students of today. I believe that if this remains the case, our nation as a whole will pay a long term difficult price for this inequality.

So, I was ready to take on this issue until I happened to notice a Dick Van Dyke show on my television screen. And suddenly I was laughing and forgetting until just a few moments ago about what was really important to me today.

Damn that Dick Van Dyke show. Did it need to be that funny?

Now, what was I talking about?