UM, WHERE'S THE COMMENTS? THE VOTES? ANYONE? ANYONE? BUELLER?

Don't forget to scroll down and peruse the nominees for Best Post from Year 1 of The Pond. Meanwhile, got a new Pick To Click: My fellow peacenik and war tax resister (and almost-mayor of Toledo) Mike Ferner tipped me off to a guy named Mark Morford who writes for SFGate.com. Below is just a sample of his work. For more, the link's over by there.--->

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President John F. Kennedy had an affair with a 19-year-old intern who traveled with him on official trips, according to a new biography. "She had no skills. She could answer the phone," Robert Dallek, author of "An Unfinished Life," told "Dateline NBC". "Apparently, her only skill was to provide sexual release for JFK on those trips and maybe in the White House." Dallek learned of the affair from a White House aide, Barbara Gamarekian, whose oral history was recently unsealed. President Bush, who obtains sexual release from dry humping a mangy taxidermied colt named Binkers while snorting premium Peruvian blow through the hollow case of an ExxonMobile ballpoint pen, was visibly appalled and shaken at the news, unless that was just the lithium and Demerol, as was Dick Cheney, whose idea of sexual release is, of course, a dozen gin/Viagra Martinis and cranking the defibrillator on 10 and having Lynney stuff used nylons into every orifice and then coating his body with liver-flavored kibble and letting a swarm of rabid Chihuahuas in heat run all over his mounds of milky white cottage cheese while Lynney jumps on a trampoline and does a sloppy heavily Paxiled strip-tease and belts out 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' through a megaphone.
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