Waiting for Whoopi

[Roy Janik]

Let this be a lesson to you. Never look too deeply into your past, lest an entire country tries to guilt-trip you into helping them out:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/02 ... index.html

"Your Excellency Hoppy Goldberg, it is with great euphoria that the government of Guinea-Bissau ... learned of your ancestral origins .... The news has awoken in each and every one of us a deep sense of fraternity .... We simply cannot remain indifferent to the news of your Guinean heritage."

"She will come. She's Guinean. She's our daughter. She's ours," Minister of Tourism Francisco Conduto de Pina said.

[DollarBill]

That reads like one of those email scams from the prince of Nigeria.

[acrouch]

Maybe it's not a scam after all.