After discovering I was a competitor — and then confirming that I really, really wasn’t the winner — of the Freakonomics US Motto contest, here’s a weird little capstone:

Stephen J. Dubner did a little segment with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America where they talked about the contest and trotted out some of the mottos.  Sadly, mine didn’t get any airtime, but neither did “The Most Gentle Empire So Far”, and “Caution! Experiment in Progress Since 1776″ got flubbed by Sawyer.

The cruelty, though: the bacon motto, my one true nemesis, got mentioned.