Water is one of the few products that's still made in America. The smartest people in the world today are the ones in the computer field. They were smart enough to go to college and major in computers, while some of their classmates were majoring in beer. Their computer knowledge landed them jobs in big companies like Microsoft, where their main goal is to keep adding more features to computers, so the rest of us find it much easier to look like idiots. Truth is, even the computer people had to work hard to get where they are.
Hard work is the key to almost anyone's success.
Talent alone won't get you on Letterman, though it may get you on welfare. Hard work will put food on your table and ensure that you can afford lots of deodorant. Melvin Durai, a graduate of Towson State University and a former Baltimorean, is a humor columnist at the Chambersburg, Pa., Public Opinion.