...maybe she only wants him for a fishing buddy.

i'm just saying, "if it quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck..." in other words, as the t-shirt says, "if you let us marry each other we'll stop marrying you!"

maybe angel merkel justs wants to avoid running into her boundary-less, back-rubbing colleague, W.

we've all done that before...changed plans to avoid the office space-invader!

i would also say that those "urbane tomboys" could also be called "pre-lesbians"...speaking strickly from my own experience, of course.

yesterday on "meet the press" so-called republican "wordsmith" peggy noonan was dumbstruck by richardson's beard. considering the frequent use of beards (albeit of a slightly different nature) in the republican party (larry craig's wife, david dreier's dates), i was surprised by her stupor:

MR. RUSSERT: Peggy Noonan, thoughts on Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson?

MS. NOONAN: I, I am struck by how, how with his beard, Bill Richardson looks like Rod Steiger in Dr. Zhivago. He has startled me. I was saying, "That's not Bill Richardson. And who in the heck is that guy?"