Whenever we meet a spiritual leader and we're wondering how to greet him, we ask ourselves, What would Howie Mandel do? So we especially approved of the mayor of Memphis's recent choice to fist bump the Dalai Lama. Reader BattleAngel takes today's Noble Prize for agreeing with his decision to hand-punch the highest religious officer of the Tibetan Buddhists on the grounds that he's probably crawling with disease.

"The Fist Bump is more sanitary than the Hand Shake. I'm all for the fist bump. Especially in flu season."

Thanks! This makes us feel better about the time we met the pope and asked him to throw in a Listerine strip with that Jesus wafer.