Did any of you ever watch the Miss America pageants? I say did because I like to assume that they aren’t watched any more, but I do know that to be untrue. Either way, did or do you? Hand raised, I admit with only an ounce or so of trepidation that I most certainly did watch many a pageant, picking my favorites alongside the judges, and always including Miss North Carolina in the top three, no matter how ugly (or truthfully, how busted, or how fake) she may have been. At the time I watched those contests, I was much younger and I probably didn’t understand all the answers to the Q&A section (although now that I think of it, the contestants certainly aren’t rocket scientists now, are they?!), but I remember the frequent response to the “What do you want in life” questions being, “I want, like, nothing...
