Wes Moore spoke at my college before he was a politician. He talked about the experience of writing his book The Other Wes Moore, which is a fantastic read and one I highly recommend -- I've met few people who think about the issues their communities face as deeply or take them as seriously as he does. Maryland has a good one, that's for sure.

You put "taste" in quotation marks like there's another word for what you feel when that nasty ass public pool piss water is in your mouth