My Very First Rally--Also, On the Irony of Millionaire Marxists

[You can see my head hunched over a typewriter in the lower left-hand corner].
I've always wanted to be in a rally, so scratch that one off the bucket list.

The Background: Recently, the Iowa Board of Regents proposed to once again raise tuition and grad student fees.  Hijinks ensued.

Things weren't helped by university president Sally Mason, she of the perpetual foot in mouth (just last year, she said that aiming for zero campus rapes was probably unrealistic, given "human nature." ...