Analogy

of the day, too. 

In retrospect

he probably should have gone for the press stunt with the oil spill. 

Not fud, but very sharp

NPR is going overboard trying to be fair and balanced these days. I was reeling in bed listening; imagine what people in cars took away. 

Not fud, just funny

Could no one in the press pack in 2000 have communicated at least a hint of this?

Not fud, but funny

Also funny how those abstinence promoters clam up when oil is involved. 

Peripherally fud

but good. 

Not fud, just appalling

We in the streets in February 2003 were so naive to think it was all about the oil. 

Not fud, just funny

Walking to the farmers' market this morning, I spotted a van with the perfect name for the last seven years of the Bush-Cheney Co.: Freedom Demolition. 

Not really fud

unless you consider how it gets from field to table. Guess we can't argue about blood for oil. 

How ostentatious was the cake

at the second "low-key" event? Six hundred close friends partying at the White House while the Midwest is drowning. And a cash bar afterward? Skanky is as skanky does. 

(Gleaned from the indispensable Dan Froomkin)

Not fud, just dead-on

No brains for oil. 

Not fud, just sharp

Surely a good ol' Texas boy won't object to the uglification of the Maine coast. 

Don't think he's talking arugula

I suspect he means $48-a-pound mesclun. The meat should not cost less than the salad. Although I noticed just now that our neighborhood grocery store (really a bodega on steroids) has signs in the windows advertising only specials on beef, lamb and veal. Everything else must be priced out.