I'm well aware that this is a tough gig, and, Martha, sweetheart, I know you have it just as tough as I do. But the fact still remains, I chose this. Consider the plight of the couple featured on CNN today, whose names I probably couldn't spell correctly even if I did know them. He's Israeli, she's Palestinian, they fell in love and got married in Cyprus, thinking that might grant them the ability to be together as man and wife; no dice. They haven't been together because their governments say they can't, or shouldn't, be together. But, well, you know love. Thus far, the woman has been granted a 3-month permit to be with him, and, of course, their attorney is fighting for more. And this guy's love and belief in his wife is telling him nothing so much as he WILL make it happen; that anything worth having is worth struggling for. I'm not normally a hugely political guy, and I will only say that if "the two sides" can get together at the most grass-roots level of all, just being in love, and not seeing anything but the other person, then what's stopping all the rest of us? What's the message in disagreement, that politics matters more than humanity?! That's CRAP, plain and simple. Ergo, I hereby initiate the Croatian Gangsta's annual online "Tough Enough" award: no prize except to know that what you're doing is truly the right thing to do, and you're willing to put yourself out there to make it happen. So, here's to you, Mr. and Mrs. World Peace in the Making, for having the stones collectively to simply be in love, and do whatever it takes to make it happen. The Gangsta tips the only hat he has in Korea, his gaudy, green-plaid Totes bucket hat, to you. You move me in ways only "Casablanca" has before.