America the beautiful...and I'm not the father!

Ok...so I was chatting it up with some people in one of my grad school classes last night...and I swear it was like none of them had ever read a newspaper. One guy didn't know that France could elect Presidents(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/world/europe/28france.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)....apparently he thought it was a monarchy for some reason because of that "Napoleon Guy"...so I changed the topic to sports thinking that would work with conversing with men...but apparently if its not football, baseball or b-ball it just doesn't count. So know one cared about Phelps record setting swim http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/sports/29cnd-swim.html?ref=sports

But I guess I shouldn't be so judgmental because they knew all sorts of things I know zilch about...for instance...they knew about this guy not being some woman's babies daddy...