She also pledged $50 million to Notre Dame's Center for Peace Studies. It is the universities largest single donation - from a woman who has no ties to ND except that she once heard a speech here from Father Theodore Hesburgh.

I only wish that she would have left it to NPR before their last pledge drive! Have had to kick it to the curb for AM sports chat on my commute because I can't stand the mindless panhandling and juvenile begging that's been going on the last two weeks on our local PBS stations. Frick, even Garrison Keiler got into the begging act.

I feel better now.