The Best Nation

When a homeless person asks you "what's the best nation?" he or she is probably not waiting for you to say the United States of America. He or she would also probably not agree.

If one is practiced in the art of asking questions for the ultimate purpose of soliciting money, the inflection used in asking said question will probably tip you off that it's a rhetorical question. The answer, by the way, is "the best nation is donation."

So when a friend/TFR reader asked me why someone would anonymously donate $54 to Haiti, I thought it might be what Barack Obama (President of the best nation) would call a "teachable moment."

Harvard professors can be black, Jesus was probably eggshell-to-tan-colored, Hanukkah is a stupid holiday, Morley Safer, in addition to Andy Rooney, is the second member of the 60 Minutes team who has been dead for some time now but still manages to appear on the air, and it is the Jews who often give both anonymously and in increments of $18 (18x3=54).

While I'll never know WHO gave $54 to Haiti to piggyback upon my Colts/Jets wager, my guess is that it was a Jew. It's probably wrong of me to speculate, but the e-mail address did include the letters NYC, which anyone will tell you is the best city...that is, except for homeless people. They think the best city is generosity.

I am done talking about football.