By Stephanie B Goldberg
1. Even though the Dow is shakier than an oil platform in Galveston, some intrepid eBayer has managed to scrape together more than $12,000 to bid on a piece of toast that purports to bear Sarah Palin’s likeness. I guess if you can’t find these it’s the next best thing.
2. Inspired by the Australian bank robber whose heist set off a pink dye bomb, we’re thinking pink these days. As in pink sleeping pills that are just for girls. Or cute pink telephones. Or the pink slips which are so popular these days.
3. Cross a dog lover with a rapid political partisan and what do you get?
Pugs for McCain
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Shelties for Obama
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And then there is the undecided swing vote . . .
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4. Speaking of our four-footed friends, a popular pastime among farmworkers in Bayard County, Iowa, is not putting lipstick on pigs but sodomizing them with metal rods.
5. No thanks, I’ll take my coffee black.
Posted on September 19, 2008