Little known fact: the dude on the right is actually yelling "Free Bird!"

I think it's the photographer that get's the the applause here.

In other news, did I miss a post on the TNR blog about AIG executives going on an expensive retreat after the bailout?  The party cost us almost half a million dollars, and they've burned through what, $85 billion, $37 billion and no $9 billion of our money already?

Story here:

www.npr.org/.../story.php

Eeeeeew. And the only woman in the shot looks like she desperately wishes she'd just gone to work instead.

                             Why did you Photoshop-out the dollar bills?

"Baby take off your coat...(real slow)

Baby take off your shoes...(here I'll take your shoes)

Baby take off your dress

Yes yes yes

You can leave your hat on

You can leave your hat on

You can leave your hat on"

Never mind the dollar bills.  What happened to the pole?

I'll be honest:  I'm a leg man from way back.  I've always been a leg man.  My father was a leg man.  My boys will probably grow up to be leg men, although I don't have any boys.  But I can honestly say that Palin's stems do nothing for me.  They're like fancy rims on an ice cream truck that's slowly wandering through a war zone screeching "The Entertainer" as bombs explode and bullets fly that doesn't even have a working freezer.  The whole scene is just so *wrong* that all those nice wheels do is add insult to injury.

The first time I saw here - photo only - I thought she was a very attractive woman.  At 44, with 5 kids, she is in pretty good shape and has a pretty face, for sure.  I pointed this out to my husband, who is never shy about giving me his opinion regarding the beauty of other women, and he said, "Well, not my type, but I can see where some might find her worth oogling." (And that's now been proved time and again, thanks to Rick Lowry sharing his inner-most thoughts, echoed by so many.)

But now that I've heard her speak and spew the toxic snide snarky bullshit that I myself left back in freshman year, I've considered her on par with a wildebeest.  (Which, by the way, she'd be only too happy to shoot dead if she'd ever traveled to East Africa.)

Those lovely lips, eyes, and shapely calves have been wasted on a she-devil.

Yes, as a classic ogling guy -- hey, haven't been arrested yet! -- I agree with Lyn.  I had the same thoughts about Palin a few weeks ago but now the empty personality and the vacant space where warmth, intelligence, and curiosity might be have driven any sexy or erotic vibe down to zero.

Is she wearing FMP's? Maybe that's what got Rickie Lowry's motor running.

Ah, the Pinkshirts are back.  Y'know, it could just be that the one woman in the picture is finding out the hard way that our Pinkshirts haven't done laundry recently.