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From the "I Didn't Get the Memo" Department

Last year, when he was running for president, Rudy Giuliani explained his thinking about the courts. He complained that "civil litigation consumes 2.2 percent of America’s gross domestic product" and argued that "to reduce the impact of the trial lawyer tax, we should reform the system by adopting rules that discourage frivolous lawsuits."

This week, Rudy's son Andrew, 22, filed a suit against Duke University, where he is a student, because he was cut from the golf team. The suit "accuses the university of bad faith by aggressively recruiting him to play golf for Duke and then dashing his dreams by taking steps to remove him from the team," the NYT writes. Andrew G. wants damages and "the right to use Duke’s golf center for the rest of his life." This is such a genius exhibit of self-parodying entitlement that I almost wish Rudy were the GOP candidate, so he'd have to answer for it. As is, he's getting away with no comment. I will have to content myself with the service Andrew does himself by including, in the court filings, that "he may have misbehaved in February when he tossed an apple in a teammate’s face, flipped his putter a few feet, threw and broke a club and gunned his engine in a parking lot."