President Barack Obama: June 2009 Archives

Before starting my first year at Penn State, I attended an orientation session with other students who had been accepted at the university. One of the topics they addressed was how academically and intellectually advanced we were over the country's general high school population.

I wasn't sure whether to be skeptical or alarmed about that information in subsequent years, when I encountered some real dumb asses at that school.

One episode comes to mind immediately. I was at a party where a young woman was talking about a friend of mine whom she considered "hot." But she wasn't sure if she could hook up with him, because he was a "foreigner."

OK, maybe this whole "Obama-swats-fly" thing is played out by now. I don't care. This video cracked me up, so I'm posting it.

Anybody got a problem with that? Huh? You! The big guy in the corner with the spider web tattoo on your face! You got a problem with that? Didn't THINK so!

Anyway, here it is:

Did you ever get an e-mail from someone purporting to be an exiled Nigerian government official, offering to cut you in on a deal to transport a vast sum of money out of the country if you'd only be kind enough to provide some personal information?

Before you hit the delete key, did you ever take a minute to wonder: "Who the hell would actually respond to something like this?"

I'm guessing it's the kind of people who would forward an e-mail that actually ended up in my inbox this morning.