Stephen Dubner at the Freakonomics blog is running a contest: "Write a six-word motto for the U.S. of A."

Some of the submissions are pretty good, though most are funny and snarky.

Six words is almost no words. I've been experimenting with Twitter as a way of keeping people who care (like their grandparents) up to speed on what my kids are doing, and I am enormously challenged by finding something to say in just 140 characters. Some Twitter-users are masters. Here's Ana Marie Cox, missing the McCain bus before the South Caroline Primaries: "Columbia, SC: McCain bus somehow didn't wait the 3 hrs I was delayed. Have sketchy deal w cabbie to go to next stop for $100 cash. Cue banjo."

Six words, though? That's almost nothing. And yet there are some really funny ones in the comments responding to the challenge. My favorite is "A billion dollars makes you president."

I'll think about this and probably come up with something earth-shattering and awesome while I'm giving my kid a bath or something, and then forget it by the time I get to the computer after reading eleven books and singing "Yaba-Daba" twice. You?