"In a recent interview with CBS' Katie Couric, the suddenly famous library director was asked the secret of his success. Much to the surprise of listeners in every walk of American life, he attributed it to the faeries at the bottom of his garden. Ms. Couric, for perhaps the first time in her professional career, was completely non-plussed and was forced to take an unscheduled commercial break to recover herself."


Adieu, friends and MOABites. I leave in a few hours for the trials and tribulations of air travel in Bush's America. It is slightly better than traveling by schooner to the Hawaiian islands to start a missionary career in 1871, but not by much.


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