And here’s the Final Jeopardy Category – Applied Geography

This is the number of miles separating Columbia, SC and Monrovia, Liberia.

You have 30 seconds. Good luck.

I’m sorry. Sarah who?

Black Power

On the 45 anniversary of Dr. King’s almost canonical I Have a Dream speech, Barak Obama accepted his party’s nomination for president of the United States. This is, without a doubt, a moment never envisioned by millions of slaves and their descendants continuing the struggle for equal opportunity and representation in our nations public landscape. His accomplishment is not just significant for his life and that of his family or even the DNC. It is a watershed for people of colour everwhere. As he follows in the footsteps of Hattie McDaniel, Jackie Robinson and Hiram Revels, Obama is blazing a new trail to give passage to those who will follow after him.

If that weren’t enough, the new Beverly Hills 90210 will actually have a black guy in the cast.

I’m proud to be an American.

Re: Nerds are hot

“Are those bifocals you’re wearing or are you just happy to see me?”

Good point, but I still plan on writing in Michael Phelps.

‘We, in Ireland , can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States

On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can’t seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run !

Now…On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with the appropriate ‘Mc’ terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!

What in God’s name are ya lads thinkin over in the colonies !

Gracias Mateo

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in their mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
- Miguel de Unamuno

I got some publish action!

If you didn’t get the email, check out the site to see my article on Radiant Magazine. It’s on the front page!

Oprah can stick it.

They used the word “Phelpsian” this morning on the news. Imagine that. One day you are just splashing around in a pool trying to avoid bullies that chide you for your freakishly disporportionate body and a few years later, there’s a word coined because of you. Funny how things happen.

I was chatting this idea up with my new office BFF. I posed this question. Lets say that you just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Some major world event occured and you ended up in the center. (For example, you were taking a nice family photo, and happened to catch an international criminal in the shot, which led to his arrest.) Now, its your name on the lips of news casters across the world. Everyone wants the exclusive.

Who would you grant your interview to?

Move Over Chuck Norris

“Michael Phelps doesn’t swim. The water gets out of his way.” – Some high school kid.

The most frightening thing I’ve ever heard at a wedding

“Not everything that comes out of my mouth is predatory.”