Last trivia

São Paulo, Brazil. Note that if we counted squatters in the urban agglomeration, Mexico City might edge it out, but since that's not in the Southern Hemisphere, that shouldn't have fooled anyone.

Trivia again

The answer: Funnyman Jackie Gleason. Some joke, huh?

Trivia for the week

And I'm back. The answer to this question was the original Super Mario Brothers for the Nintendo Entertainment System (note that I'm excluding PC games - otherwise I believe "The Sims" wins out).

Peace (changed my mind).

Addendum #2 and Trivia

Sorry it's taking me so long to get around to this, but I am now adding info to column #2. I was a little surprised that this didn't yield a single piece of hate mail for me even though I bashed John Kennedy and Barack Obama in a single blow - I guess Academia isn't the haven of liberalism it used to be.

I did have one friend e-mail me to point out that there are points over which reasonable people can disagree in regard to NAFTA. I'll certainly grant that point, but I don't believe that any of Obama's anti-NAFTA rhetoric in Ohio stemmed from these concerns so much as a desire to pander to the pro-protectionist demographic. To be fair, Hillary also attacked free trade in Ohio, although I doubt whether she would be foolish enough to actually go through with her threats. Obama, like Kennedy, might actually go through with his bad promises.

The answer to this week's question, as those of you who were at Pub Trivia last night know, is Java, edging out Honshu by 21 million people.

War. (I feel that 'Peace' is an overused closing line for blog posts these days)