So African chiefs are being asked by Nigerian human rights organizations to apologize for their ancestors who rounded up (and usually defeated) their neighbors and sold them to European slave traders.

And New York is next, bound for the Memory Hole to pay for the sins of its namesake, the Duke of York.

My hometown of South (Imagine! The gall!) Bend is bound to be next.

I have the solution.

All the descendants of Adam and Eve should apologize to all of humanity for the sin, death, and destruction which the sin of their first ancestors, and the sins of all their descendants, have caused to humanity.

And all of humanity should gracefully and gratefully accept the apology.

Then we start over.

The Best of Christopher Manion