Later, having found no oil, he left

Vice President Dick Cheney, much to his credit, kept politics out of his commencement address to Auburn University graduates Friday. Instead, he gave a classy, feel-good speech that poked fun at Auburn's parking woes and gave props to its 13-0 football team.

Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, he's still calling for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to detonate the nuclear option and kill the judicial filibuster "within a few weeks," which, as I've explained several times, is a very bad idea indeed.

As Cheney spoke at a $250-per-plate fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, across campus Friday afternoon, nine anti-war protesters gathered outside. One called the Iraq war "an overt act of immorality," but no one inside heard him.