The Center Of Relevance In Life

I got an email today, according to which I am the proud beneficiary of $25 million, I believe the figure was. Obviously this bequest is going to change my life in numerous ways. One, I plan to save at least half of it, and as for the rest I think I'll probably buy several things I'd like, a house, car, all that.

Checking it out on the internet, at some place with a name like "scam alert," it looks like a lot of others have had the same good fortune. So that's an interesting coincidence.

One of the sentences in the letter was very interesting:

I am the only one who knows of this situation at this time, and good fortune has blessed and planted you into the center of relevance in life.

Good fortune has blessed and planted me "into the center of relevance in life." I believe this is the first time I've ever been anywhere near the center of relevance in life. I've spent a lot of time at the margins, quite far from the center of relevance in life. But now I have been planted into it, I'm doing OK!

Lay Off The Nigerians!

In the article about John McCain still hating the "gooks" of Vietnam, even 40 years later, there's this question by someone: "If Sen. McCain had been captured by Nigerians, could he call those people 'niggers' and think he wasn't going to offend everyone who is black?" That question is asked by Guy Aoki, president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, an anti-defamation group.

To which I say, hey, Mr. Aoki, lay off the Nigerians. The Nigerians have been very very good to me. In fact just the other day a wealthy chieftain died, leaving his fortune to someone who happened to have my email address. Even now we're in communications -- the Nigerian beneficiary, myself, and my bank -- to forward a sizable handling fee overseas so that I can receive some of the inheritance, a pretty hefty payoff, I might add. It's in the high seven figures, meaning millions.