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Really the only surprise about this:

Iraqi journalist throws shoes at Bush

is that his reaction time is better than I would expect! Those were some not altogether slouchy ducks.

I couldn’t count on both hands the number of times I would have liked to do that — I hope there’s some hope for the guy.

(from this nyt story)

In this case, a picture is worth about a hundred gazillion words.

But while the picture is fascinating, more than anything I’d like to know what those words were.

“So now, again, is this the way to the bowling alley, or the war room?”

Speaking of which, I’m guessing Barack will be improving his bowling. 

Correction! He already has a transition plan for that.

The miniseries has come to an end, and we await the climax. Hooray!

And now, for a bit of Couch news you can read between refreshing your poll trackers…

- My publisher is having a Couch carrying photo contest
- There’s an excerpt of the first 10k words of Couch up at Book Spot Central
- and also a contest there
- Powell’s is selling signed copies of Couch. Who signed them? I have no idea – I hope it’s a special robot with a calligraphic flare living in the basement. Named Robert. Who hums while he signs. But if you like signatures at the front of your book, that seems like a good way to get one if you’re not going to be in one of these places.

That’s all for now. Go vote and be merry.

Incidentally, we so voted for Omar.

Via Matt Ruff who picked it up from PZ Meyers who possibly got it from Fark:

John Scalzi seems to have figured it out:

Glorious, Gynoparadisiacal West Virginia

I mean, Virgina, Virginia Slims – there’s something to it, that must be it. I can’t think of any other factors that might have come into play…