pop. colin first. there is a good one. i m done. very good. i guess we ran out of them. let me welcome back our guest, author and columnist. she is so hot the central heating system is now called central se-cupp system. he is as funny as a sad clown using a lace from his over sized shoe. and columbia university associate professor of education and african studies. if intelligence were a port authority bath bathroom stall, many would enter him daily. war, starvation, terrorism, guys named brad who stole my sweatshirt. it is a mighty cruel world we live in. but as the l.a. times points out, things have never been better. that s according to some recent figures that suggest life as we currently know it is on average is pretty f-ing