Big Deal, I Won

I want to thank everyone who selected me to be TIME magazine's "Person of the Year for 2006" and, with no misgivings, I must decline the award. No less than the Publisher's Clearinghouse, TIME has made every person a winner.

Interestingly, I also was notified that I won the UK Lottery today and was fortunate enough to be selected to help a Nigerian princess retrieve millions of dollars from a Swiss bank. I also won an Apple iPod, a cell phone and a laptop computer.

I'm now going to make a note on my calendar indicating that 2006 was the year that TIME magazine turned the "Person of the Year" award into spam.