If you are an adult with a job and life experience, it's hard to really care what a college student says. Not that any person of any age should not have an opinion worthy of respect, but I mean, college is a time where kids become either idealists who have yet to grasp the reality of the world, or counter culturalists looking to attack those who offend their sense of what is cool.

Such is the case with knucklehead extraordinaire Kevin O'Doole - The Tool O'Doole - who this week published a story about  his dissatisfaction with the mustache culture in The Manitoban Online, the Official University of Manitoba Students' Newspaper Website.

Clearly, O'Doole is a bitter pill, looking to stand out just like those he criticizes, someone who cannot be satisfied, and who will end up angrily walking onto his college campus in a trench coat carrying automatic weapons pleading for attention.  

He writes, "But I love the moustache. I love the moustache and I wish could wear one. But it’s not allowed! No, you hordes of junior beatniks have taken it and wrung it of its glory."

Yes, he wishes he could wear one. Um, strap it on Tool O'Doole. 

This is where he gets personal: "Those of you who claim to support the moustache (spelled like a communist) are the ones who have ruined it forever. The American Moustache Institute (AMI) exemplifies my claim. They say that the downfall of the moustache came in the 1970s: 'while until then it was fashionable to wear a mustache, virtually overnight, it became a fad reserved for the likes of law enforcement, steel workers, motor cross drivers.' They said themselves, 'a fad.'  Were they (and their kind) to leave it alone, moustache culture would have normalized. It would once again become the choice facial hair of writers, philosophers and thinkers. But no. That same group, the AMI, exemplifies the problem by insisting on having contests such as “Best Sports Mustache of All Time” and features such as “Mustache Games” and “Mustache Video of the Week.” The staff section of their website reveals a series of photos; all smarmy, mustachioed infidels, all gazing like scholars into the distance. Jokers, all of them!"

We can only agree with his final summation. Yes, we are all smarmy. And OK, maybe we are jokers. But we are documented crusading advocates as well. I guess The Tool O'Doole didn't do his research.

So instead of bitching for the 7.53 people who read his online rag, the AMI has actually taken the mustache effort to the globe, and about 250,000 people visit our advocacy Web site each week and many of you join up. So we are very proud of our efforts.

AMI research director Dan Callahan sent a note to The Tool O'Doole:

As research director of the American Mustache Institute, I must take issue with your story about mustaches. Canadian-spelling aside, we think you miss the point of the mustache, our group's advocacy of it and, on Einstein's 129th birthday, the theory of relativity. The mustache is an element of free expression we believe should be encouraged in everyone who can wear it. Even at its most popular, there was an element of subversion to the hairy upper lip. No matter how neatly trimmed it might be, the lip sweater was a bit of unruly manliness that sought to slap the non-mustached upside the head and say 'You don't have any idea what I'm capable of and it scares you, doesn't it?" For those who shared the flavor saver, it was a bond that brought together people who might never link up. Walter Cronkite and Geraldo Rivera, John Waters and Hitler, Teddy Roosevelt and Super Mario - the list exceeds the space. Bottom line: a mustache is a terrible thing to shave.

In short, we'd like to hear your thoughts on this issue via your comments here. We must imagine The Tool O'Doole is somehow related to Dave Navarro. You may also comment directly to the Daily  Manitoban and T.O. here.