Corrente Boldly shrill ... http://www.correntewire.com/node/1258/atom/feed 2006-02-01T00:56:17-05:00 So, what about the mission to Mars? http://www.correntewire.com/so_what_about_the_mission_to_mars 2006-01-31T23:07:45-05:00 2006-02-01T00:56:17-05:00 lambert Friends--as Rush would say--I just couldn't do it. I couldn't ask the bartender at Tangier to mix me a frothing wingnut--he was just working too hard for me to be comfortable handing him a recipe prinotut and saying, "Could you make me one of these?" But I tipped, liberally, to keep my image green. All I can ask of you, readers, is that you help me be less shy and retiring in the future.

Anyhow, one of the best parts of the speech was the auto-translated crawl: ...turn the valium of the debate down... was especially precious, containing, as it did, a coded message to Leadfoot, dressed, as was her rival for the affections of the Campaigner in Chief, Condi, in pink Chanel. We should really have a crawl here at Corrente. Though what it would consist of, I'm not sure.

So I scribbled a few notes on the back of the xerox of a drinking game; "Any attempt to use a heartfelt story of an indvidual citizen's courage under pressure to make a point" came unexpectedly late. Here they are:

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