From Gene’s Notebook
The San Antonio bus station, that stench-filled building, with every San Antonio street-person outside, kept away by the pistol-carrying guard, and no one dares leave the puke-smelling inside to face the 3:29 a.m. street rabble.
I landed there twice in the past three years, once when the feuding-among-themselves bus personnel failed to call passengers [...]

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Noted by Stan

Blogger Mudflats reports on a ‘Alaska Women Reject Palin’ Rally on Monday. Apparently not all Alaskans are elated to have Tina Fay for governor. While you’re there, look around. It’s a good blog.
UPDATE: Some video of the rally:

UPDATE: A controversy from Alaska’s Wingnut radio

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A poem by Thomas Thornburg from Munseetown
(for Warren Vanderhill)
The girls who lived in old Lucina
Just west of where dear brazen Benny stands
Were majors all and cognate in their minors,
All lovely-limbed and loyal to sundry lands.
All blonde and browned from days of endless summer,
They laughed and chaffed their carefree youth away
And quoted gravely there their mentors’ [...]

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