Tony: "My brother once told me that he was happier with his iPod than he ever was with a girlfriend."

Mr. Pagel: "Your brother is a smart man."

Stereotypes are funny because they're true.

If Asians didn't want to be stereotyped as being good at math and hardworking, then they shouldn't be good at math and work so hard.

If African-Americans didn't want to be stereotyped as lazy athletes with a good sense of rhythm, then they shouldn't spend so much time jumping around and smoking crack and shaking their booty.

I took a trip down memory lane.

And I learned that The Goo Goo Dolls are the best band ever!

Earlier today I was going number two1 when I overheard the following conversation:

Boy #1: "Dude, that's an awesome shirt."

JC (my neighbor whose voice I recognized): "Yeah, I wear it so I can score with the ladies."

Boy #1: "Hey, come check out his shirt!"

Boy #2: "Haha! That shirt rules!"

JC: "It doesn't really work though. Guys seem to like it a lot more than chicks."

I never did get to find out what the shirt said. I was too embarrassed to call out to them while I was sitting on the john and they left before I could get done.

1. "Going number two" - going poo poo.

Heralded as America's answer to the growing quality (and hence popularity) of Japanese cars, General Motors's Saturn was supposed to save the American auto industry. But because of poor investment and poor quality, it flopped, proving we are not  the kings of the industry we created. Even our attempts to create new markets by marketing SUVs and pick-ups are failing. Jeremy W. Peters and Micheline Maynard of the New York Times wrote, "The Saturn plant, like other efforts at G.M. to battle foreign competition, became a victim of the company's short attention span. At a critical time when the plant needed to grow, G.M instead poured money into sport utility vehicles and pickups, hoping to outwit the Japanese - only to see them invade those markets, too."

That being said, Lan and I said this to each other:

Tony: "GM shut down the Saturn plant completely!"

Lan: "SATURN SUX."

Tony: "It's just sad that 30,000 jobs are lost "

Lan: "Or it's COOL"

Tony: "I don't think that's the case..."