born 11 May 1970

Allison Graham, Long Beach, California, web event producer

Christian Kaufmann, birthplace unspecified, Bavarian TV actor/writer

Diego Parés, Buenos Aires, Argentina, actor/short filmmaker

Harold Ford Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, politician

Hilly Hicks Jr., Los Angeles, California, TV writer

Johanna-Christine Gehlen, Hamburg, West Germany, actress

Karen Kilgariff, Petaluma, California, comedian

Mary Pelloni, Detroit, Michigan, TV producer

Nicky Katt, state of South Dakota, actor

Phillip DeVona, Warwick, Rhode Island, actor

Pooja Bedi, Bombay, India, actress

Remo Rocha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, actor

Roberto Candeias, Lisbon, Portugal, TV actor

Stina Jadelius, birthplace unspecified, Swedish songwriter

Temple Shea, Charlottesville, Virginia, actress

Vladimir “Mick” Tomljenovic, Cologne, West Germany, Mensa-belonging motorcycle stuntman

Welder Rodrigues, Brasília, Brazil, actor

I have a bit of a hard time rooting for Today’s Winner sometimes. He seems a little full of himself. But I’m pretty sure that nobody else born in 1970 has already had five terms in Congress. At this point he’s a pretty serious “what if” of American politics. If not for the egregious Bob Corker “Playboy party” commercial, I have to think Ford very well could have been a pivotal Democratic vote in the Senate these past four years, and an heir-apparent to the President in a number of more and less obvious ways. Hey, life runs in many directions at once. Harold Ford Jr. will have a second act.

Also he was baptized at the Mount Moriah East Baptist Church, where I once saw Al Green preach.