•Pro-smoking Orwell fan gets all slapdash with loaded words: "'I mean, really, you're treating us like children,' testified writer Christopher Hitchens, [who] said a ban would be un-American." [ WP ] •A belated local take on the Jackson verdict: "As the resulting and varied furor in the courtroom died down - I specifically recall that Nancy Grace had a stacatto, seal-like orgasm that cut through the rest of the din - the giraffe purposefully leaned his looming neck from the back row of the jury box all the way down to the defense table, steadied his musky snout a taunting three inches from my face and breathed, in Jacko's spine-tingling falsetto ... 'Guuuuiiiilll -teeeeeeeeee.' I didn't have any pants on, either." [
Metro Section: Getting to Now
Metro Section: Getting to Now
Metro Section: Getting to Now
•Pro-smoking Orwell fan gets all slapdash with loaded words: "'I mean, really, you're treating us like children,' testified writer Christopher Hitchens, [who] said a ban would be un-American." [ WP ] •A belated local take on the Jackson verdict: "As the resulting and varied furor in the courtroom died down - I specifically recall that Nancy Grace had a stacatto, seal-like orgasm that cut through the rest of the din - the giraffe purposefully leaned his looming neck from the back row of the jury box all the way down to the defense table, steadied his musky snout a taunting three inches from my face and breathed, in Jacko's spine-tingling falsetto ... 'Guuuuiiiilll -teeeeeeeeee.' I didn't have any pants on, either." [