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...that the mood in the boys' locker room has sharpened from towel-snapping to punch-throwing, Maddow might be just the sweet sister the place needs. Aside from having articulate, exhaustively researched opinions on everything from al-Qaeda to AIDS, she's cheerful, careful and civil. She has strong opinions but doesn't like forcing her interview subjects, or her listeners and viewers, to reach for the heart medication. As an MSNBC guest, she's often been paired with - or, as she says, "chained at the ankle to" - right-winger Pat Buchanan; yet they get along fine in their adversarial...
...manufactured at a stratospheric level of crass luxury - a platinum skull layered with 8,601 diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price level it would not only be the most expensive work by a living artist, but a punch line to Hirst's conceptualist joke about the madness of the overheated art market. Just like The Golden Calf, the diamond skull would go into the world to prove its own argument about false values...
...come back to the moment when John McCain invited Palin to become the first woman on a Republican ticket. Together they could make history, perhaps make the world a better place. I have to wonder: Did she know her daughter would become a late-night punch line? However unconditionally supportive, did she tell Bristol she'd have to stay backstage or hold her baby brother in pictures in a way that hid her own baby until a media strategy had been set for telling the public her most private secrets? Ordinarily, such revelations are choreographed well in advance - only this...
...from the 17 minutes promised in the morning to 37 minutes by nightfall; there was suddenly a lot to say for a woman who's had no choice but to make this up as she goes along. By the time she had gotten through her first two or three punch lines, it was clear a new star had been born, one who could go places John McCain might not even know exist and say things he could never confess...
This week, all Louisiana will have to hope that Gustav's haymaker misses the mark. But in the future, the coast is going to have to relearn how to block a punch...