OUT FOR ASSOCIATION
(Monday) Andrew Puzder, president and chief executive of CKE Restaurants Inc., which owns Carl's Jr. fast food restaurants, has been forced to resign from the board of governors of Thomas Aquinas College, because Carl's is using sexually suggestive advertising featuring Hugh Hefner. This was a courageous move for the small Roman Catholic college. Link

Aquinas is an interesting school -- no textbooks, no lectures, no electives. Instead, according to a press release on the school's site, "the college offers an entirely integrated curriculum using only the original texts of the greatest thinkers who have helped shape Western Civilization. These authors include St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, Euclid, Dante, Galileo, Descartes, our American Founding Fathers, Adam Smith, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, to name a few."

It sounds like their curriculum has prepared them to think clearly regarding this obscene move on the part of Carl's Jr.

I went to the Carl's Jr website and sent them a comment explaining why I'm opting out of their customer base.