Chonga, until you mentioned her name I'd never heard of her before. I can't keep up with all these Hollywood starlets and actresses and things.

I'm back from the dinner. Turns out the Friends of the NRA are 501(c)3 and sponsor things like firearms safety programs and hunter safety classes -- they're always under the eye of the IRS so they gotta be really, really careful not to get political. In fact, I don't think I heard the words "Obama", "gun control", or anything like that all evening. The four-year-old girl at our table DID want the fancy-schmancy gold-plated rifle that was on display, but she had a red rubber cobra so it all worked out okay.

No, I didn't win any guns in a raffle or anything else.