Can you name the top five — yes, 5 — competitive advantages, relative or absolute, that the industries and people in the geographic region called Greece have in the global economy?

Seriously.

I’d rather watch Brian/Carley Lee and Joe dancing a Pentozalli “Five Disorienting Steps” than judge that any news of Greek debt restructuring gives us the real picture of hope and prosperity for Athenians and their ilk any time soon.

Meanwhile, the ruckus in Davos…but do you really care what pompous circumstances mean to those who want to give meaning to their lives?

Observing the kids on the dance floor, such as Raymond Linton and Jenn Nye in a waltz, I ponder the future of clashing subcultures, from those who propose and adhere to strict, austere religious practice to those for whom life has no bounds other than gravitational pull and energy consumption.

Can you lift up your subculture without putting down others?  Can we not all sail on a ship rising in a high tide together?

When a deputy sheriff like Steve Adkison and his beautiful partner Suzy can put the saucy in salsa in front of appreciative onlookers, we know everything is going to be all right.

Of course, with weapons of mass and minidestruction at the ready, from wooden clubs to radioactive bombs, we’re going to keep killing some of us in our seven-billion-and-growing population from now until the end of time (or perhaps until the end of the leap second).

Gotta go before I get too winded…or windy.

I’ll leave you with these gems:

Don’t get annoyed if you neighbour plays his music at two o’clock in the morning.  Call him at four and tell him how much you enjoyed it.

“I hate housework!  You make the beds, you do the dishes — and six months later you have to start all over again.” — Joan Rivers

“Let’s be frank, the Italians’ technological contribution to humankind stopped with the pizza oven.” — Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There, 1991

“The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars’ worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.” — P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984

“If savings are below investment, foreigners are financing some of the domestic investment.  The difference between savings and investment is equal to the trade (or more precisely, the current account) surplus.  If savings fall short of investment, the difference is a trade deficit and is equal to the net foreign capital inflows that are used to make up the difference between investment and saving.  In common-sense terms, if we sell more to other countries than we buy from them, we send back the difference as savings, and that partially finances their investment or their consumption.” — Michael Spence, The Next Convergence, 2011

You decide which one is more humorous….or needs some hummus and pita chips.