Flagpole-Sitting: The Latest Threat to National Security?

WHO ELSE BUT the Post would run not one, but two major features concerning the shocking revelation that (are you ready for this?) NYU students smoke a lot of pot!

What's more, these students can just go across the street to Washington Square Park to buy it! My God, what's become of the young people today? At what point did they start going so very, very wrong?

The breathless, morally outraged account of NYU's slippery slide to hell ran the Monday after a weekend in which 11 people were murdered in the city. Yet those 11 murders were simply brushed off by the Post as a "fluke." No, it's all those pot-smoking college students who are the real threat. You never know what they might do.

We realize that moral outrage and breathless prose are the Post's bread and butter—it's part of the reason we love it the way we do. But sometimes when they pretend that juvenile delinquency is a new trend, or that drug use on college campuses was unheard of before now, they just look kind of silly.