This is the text of the 2006 commencement address for the Department of English at the University of California at Berkeley

Wow - what a great read! All of the wonderful writers in the blogosphere will enjoy this...

Here is the text from tomdispatch - you might want to save it - it's long and worthy of reading when you have some extra time:

I first read this over at Mother Jones
(great article up there about Gold Mining in Alaska - basically about Gold vs Food)