Rand's Wild and Crazy Days at Baylor

It seems Rand Paul was in some sort of secret society and participated in hazing a classmate by blind-folding her and trying to get her to do bong hits, and then telling her to worship a stream. (Hey, they were on the swim team!)

The Paul campaign's non-denial from Jesse Benton: "We'll leave National Enquirer-type stories about his teenage years in the tabloids where they belong." (Memo to self: subscribe to National Enquirer.)

Two thoughts. First, I'm pretty sure Trey Grayson never did anything like this. Kentucky Republicans wanted a fresh, colorful candidate and boy did we ever get one.

Second, I don't really care what the guy did in college as long as he will restore the federal government to its proper -- limited -- role and reduce the debt.

Rand Paul's Baylor Days

This is a non-issue. A number of media outlets erroneously reported that Rand Paul earned an undergraduate degree from Baylor University. In fact, he left Baylor before graduating upon being accepted into Duke Medical School.

Paul's website states that he "attended Baylor University." It does not state that he "graduated from Baylor University. Words have meanings, and the verbs "attended" and "graduated" have distinctly different meanings and connotations, particularly as applied to a resume. The mainstream media made a sloppy assumption.

It is completely disingenuous for media to make a factual mistake and then blame the candidate for not fact-checking them. The C-J, Lex H-L and the like make a mistake, and all of the sudden when their error is revealed, Rand Paul is the fraud for what -- not writing the story, so they could get it right? Apparently some newspapers thought that campaign staff would pick up the slack for all those reporter they laid off.

Moreover, if Duke Medical School was not bothered by Paul's academic record, why on earth should Kentucky voters care?