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My favorite instance isn't even a double entendre. Back in junior high school, in celebration of the bicentennial thirty-odd years ago, the student body was inflicted with a reading of the Declaration of Independence. The speaker simply could not proceed beyond "manly firmness." It's really hard, I mean difficult, to think of an apropriate meaning.

I give the McCain camp lots of credit for their handling of multiple scandals breaking at once: They keep releasing more and more information about the least important one, and the one where the candidate is most sympathetic. They have kept alive the babymama stories well enough, and for long enough, that no one will remember anything else that's come out about Palin in the last few days. The photo op today was a masterful touch. The sidebar on tomorrow's story about Palin's speech will be about her future son-in-law, not about the lies and such in the speech. And then next time anyone raises anything from the ongoing corruption investigation of Palin to her sticking Wasilla with $20 million in debt to her connections with secessionists, they'l just say it's old news.

Born 1963. My first news event was the Red Sox winning the pennant in 1967. Then the funerals of RFK and MLK the following year. Happily, in the 40 years since, the Red Sox have repeated-- and high level assassinations have not (at least in the U.S.).

"Text me Ishmael."

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