I flew United Airlines out of Colorado Springs recently. My ticket required changing. There was only one person behind the desk, and her job was to tag bags. The line was huge. What was I going to do?

Not to worry. Next to the computer check-in screen was a phone. It rang, and someone at a call center in India helped me check in. That's right. United Air Lines was using someone at a call desk in India to check me in at Colorado Springs.

This is bigger and deeper than a few Hispanics crossing the border. This is officially sanctioned use of offshore labor by American corporations. And, they get away with it.

All this whinging about the Nobel Prize. It is the Nobel committee's prize. They can give it to whomever they want. Stop telling other people what they should do with their prizes or whom they should give them to. It is not your prize to give.