Everyday is Halloween.

Ministry:
Well I've lived with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump! in the night...

Gail Collins, I thought in reading her column this morning, is on vacation and they've taken to re-running some of her work, like they used to do with Royko. Whoops!

It was arguments like this that made the Delaware debate by far the most interesting encounter between Senate candidates so far this year. When it was over, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer named O’Donnell the narrow winner because “she didn’t come across as just a weirdo or anything like that.” The bar for debate victory this year has become unacceptably low.
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Rand Paul, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Kentucky, is currently getting heat for his membership in a college secret society that was banned from the Baylor University campus for making fun of organized religion. And you may remember that earlier this year a woman who went to Baylor with Paul claimed that he and his friends “took me out to this creek and made me worship Aqua Buddha.”

This is exactly the kind of information we ought to ignore.
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In the Delaware debate, O’Donnell claimed her opponent had broken an agreement that no one would mention anything the other candidate did in their 20s. (She made the famous “dabbled in witchcraft” remark at age 30, but that would at least have excised her condemnations of masturbation, evolution and the theory of separation of church and state.)

That's a fresh column, again on that Nancy O'Donnell character. I guess it being a New York paper, they have to cover the hometown race so much that it appears overkill to the rest of us out here. (Delaware / New York ... it's all local, right?)

Speaking of local,
I've been taking the kayak out along the shoreline here in town, some of these early evening and weekend afternoons. Rice Lake is a bird wetland these days, with many varieties of ducks and geese stopping over.

O'Donnell is much like the decoy that draws your eye "running" across the water, while the rest of the pack floats by or takes off to safety. Too bad our elder journalists are still falling for that one, owing either to failing eyesight or maybe because they don't understand nature, due to not getting out of their own more advanced societies much.

Make it a great Saturday out there --
remember, it's never too early to start trying out your costume...
iF yOu DaRE !!