[For those not familiar, Lucianne Goldberg, Jonah's mama, was the person who persuaded Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky.]

A Big Hand for The Big Boom: USA Today reports a Gallup Poll taken last night shows an overwhelming 93% approval rating for Bush's action in Afghanistan. Let's hope the number is even higher when those planes head for Saddam who should spend some meaningful time hugging his camel.

Fat Chance Department: Spokesnurd for the Hate American crowd, Alec Baldwin weighed in with this quote, as though anyone cared where he is at all. "I'd rather die getting bombed in a New York bombing than live some kind of shallow life somewhere else."

Guts and Grace Under Fire: Don't miss Robert Bartley's riveting account of how the Wall Street Journal took a licking and kept on ticking after the WTC attack. Shows what can be done when you know you're right.

TV Notes: Peter Jennings, commenting on American food relief packages being dropped from planes in rural Afghanistan: "We tried this before and hit a lot of Kurds on the head." Bill Richardson wearing a shirt that should be shot before he gets a second chance. The left collar was dark blue with stars, the right, the red and white stripes. Ldotter Susan asks, "Doesn't he have a wife?" Remember Clinton saying no one should be afraid to fly and that he was taking four different domestic flights last week? Last Sunday he and Chelsea hopped onto a grocery mogul's private jet at Dulles and whisked off to Oxford. E Entertainment provided some welcome, if camp, relief from war news yesterday as they tried to fill up the sudden big time hole left by the cancellation of the Emmys. Vamping for the pre Emmy show, they held a ludicrous press conference in which producers told us how devastated non-hostess Ellen Degeneres was that the show would not go on. "There were tears in her eyes." Anyone who lived with Ann Hesche for two years should be able to handle that and a war at the same time. But, for pure Churchillian grandeur nothing comes close to a quote from CBS President Leslie Moonves on the decision to cancel the show (for the second time): "I want to go out and puke right now." It's fun to listen to TV anchors wrestling with names like Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. They should just do what the State department does. Call them the "Ickystans" and be done with it. Anyone see anything ominous about the fact that the two anthrax victims in Florida work for the National Enquirer?

It is NOT true that the French dropped 14 tons of salad forks and napkins over Kabul as part of their contribution to the war effort.

Advice to LDotters: If you've got a carry permit, blow the dust off it. We're off to the vault today to pick up our "special friend." We may never have to use it but it just feels better having it close to home.

Your Armed, Rested and Ready LComStaff

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001

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: If you've got a carry permit, blow the dust off it. We're off to the vault today to pick up our "special friend." We may never have to use it but it just feels better having it close to home.

I like her style. She's a great broad, which is a high compliment, IMO.

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001

Yep. It's women like her who give women like us a good name, lol! I also like her remark about "ickystans."

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001

Yep. It's women like her who give women like us a good name, lol!

SNORT! You are right!

-- Anonymous, October 08, 2001