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[Sorry, earlier I had some versioning issues with this post as it reverted to previous iterations (user error, I’m sure). I think that’s cleared up now.]

From Robert Cox’s post on the back story of how the AP and the Drudge Retort came to terms comes this quote:

A medical examiner in General Sessions Court at the Maury County Courthouse Monday presented three possible factors contributing to a man’s death that occurred during a bondage sex game.

Space Needle style. Stop for a second and think about having to clean something like Settle’s Space Needle. To me, it’s scary. I’m not big on heights, ok. The Space Needle hasn’t been cleaned since 1962 (although they did paint it twice, both in the last century) and it needs pressure washing.

One of the disadvantages to being able to sleep is that I’m having a bout of nightmares.  For the last four or five days, every night has been filled with them.

Franklin , Tennessee - have you played the game , " The Hangman " ? It's a game , a player guesses an unknown word and the only clues are , how many letters and the subject. The player has 8 guesses , before being hung , by the neck , from a rope.

On the heels of admitting numerous affairs, the newly minted governor of New York now reveals an old cocaine habit.

Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

Mary Mancini got to the end of her rope recently with Hillary CLinton when she called into question Barack Obama’s readiness to be commander-in-chief:

Besides being offensive, it’s a strategic short-sighted blunder. If she does win the nomination, all her pro-McCain rhetoric will come back and bite her in the butt. Would a Republican candidate do anything similar? Has John McCain? No

Forgiveness
As quoted by the Reverend Dr. Kendall Harmon

The bright afghan is in the dryer as we speak.  It seemed to have come through the wash just fine, no colors bled onto their neighbors, and if it can stand to be tossed around in the dryer, I will call it a raging success.

I have started the blue afghan, I think.  I have an idea for it.  Undulating columns of stripes, like an ocean or the sky or a song a girl sings when her heart is heavy and she wants to be distracted from worry.  We’ll see how it goes.