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...have no idea if that's how diamonds are made, but surely America is tough enough to suffer through some bad geological analogies. That's how strong we are. And because of that, we are about to be rewarded. While all of unemployed America spent eight hours watching a Ryder truck filled with ballots travel at the speed limit across Florida, one brave woman in Los Angeles saw that truck as a way to bring joy to this chad-torn country. Or at least to make some cash...
Sherri Spillane--Mickey Spillane's ex-wife and the talent agent who has represented Joey Buttafuoco, John Wayne Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, Kato Kaelin, Rudy from Survivor and Judge Ito impersonator Randall Tamayei--got the idea to sign Tony Enos, the guy who drove the Ryder truck. Actually, what happened was that Amanda Ripley, who sits down the hall from me, called Spillane and asked if she had signed anyone from the Florida scandal, which inspired Spillane to call Enos. So, really, it's a beautiful story about an intrepid reporter, a scrappy agent and democracy itself coming together to create...
...hours--and even spent the night in tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings in person. Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike the day before to have their picture taken with the Ryder truck coming up from West Palm Beach. But the court watchers got much more for their trouble...
...merely dimpled. Friday was a day unlike any other since the election--unlike the past month of candidates with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours. On Friday we saw how muscular reasoning can cut through the noise...
...RYDER TRUCKS Ballot transport recasts Okla. City van as justice on wheels. What has U-Haul done...