[Michael Juster]

My buddy, the magnificent Erica Dawson, is judging this year's Richard Wilbur Award:

https://www.evansville.edu/majors/cr...ads/wilbur.pdf

Shockingly, they are accepting electronic submissions for the first time.

[Michael Juster]

Problem fixed.

[Terese Coe]

Three minutes or less between the discovery of a problem and the solution?

Why don't you work for the government, Michael?

[Michael Juster]

Thanks, Terese, but that will never work.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Terese Coe

Three minutes or less between the discovery of a problem and the solution?

Why don't you work for the government, Michael?

That would never do, Terese. To work for the government, you have to sign a declaration that you will never discover the solution to a problem in less than five years, by which time everyone hopes the problem will either have disappeared, or have been scientifically proved to be insoluble.

[Brian Allgar]

I see that it's open only to Americans. Isn't that xenophobic discrimination?

[Terese Coe]

Thanks for the big grins, Mike and Brian!

Wish you could be in it, Brian. I am not in either, but it was health-related. Another year...