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On Thursday afternoon, William Bastone, the editor of the Smoking Gun Web site, stood in a private dining room on the second floor of Planet Hollywood in New York, listing people who hate him and his organization.

That pretty much makes sense. The Web site, which Mr. Bastone founded in 1997 with Daniel Green, publishes legal papers, internal corporate memos, government correspondence and other hard-to-find documents about the famous and wealthy, the divorcing, the drunk, the incarcerated, the accidentally topless — in short, people who pay $6,000 for shower curtains or whose sexual exploits are circulated on the Internet. [New York Times

“I hope that before my name falls from the Eucharist prayer in the silence of death, you will know well who I am.

For I am Joseph, your Brother.”

– Cardinal Joseph Bernardin – 1928 – 1996

This guy’s walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can’t get out.

A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, “Hey you! Can you help me out?” The doctor writes him a prescription, throws it down the hole, and moves on.

Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, “Father, I’m down in this hole! Can you help me out?” The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole, and moves on.

Then a friend walks by. “Hey Joe, it’s me, can you help me out?” And the friend jumps in the hole! Our guy says “Are you stupid? Now we’re both down here!” And the friend says, “Yeah, but I’ve been down here before, and I know the way out.”

(from The West Wing, “Noel”) [Dive into Mark]

Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine, into your brain,and that’s where you get shitty ideas from.

Help me understand why this tribe just voted Rupert off of the show?

Unfuckingbelievable.

Gotta stick up for my fellow Hoosiers ya know.

These are days you’ll remember.
Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.
And as you feel it, you’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky.
It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you.

These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break.
These days you might feel a shaft of light make its way across your face.
And when you do you’ll know how it was meant to be.
See the signs and know their meaning.
It’s true, you’ll know how it was meant to be.
Hear the signs and know they’re speaking to you, to you.

– 10,000 Maniacs