Lest you think student activists are a bunch of crackpots...

...take a moment today to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, which began with a demonstration by tens of thousands of courageous students and culminated with the complete collapse of the Communist regime in just more than a month.

(And yes, I realize that this is an extremely oversimplified explanation of the fall of communism, but 17 November is widely recognized as the beginning of the Velvet Revolution.)