Free association

... on events of the day:

• Ted Haggard: "Just a massage"? Yeah, that's right up there with "didn't inhale."
• John Kerry: Waiting for him to admit that his 2004 presidential campaign was just a "botched joke."
• Daniel Ortega: May a giant hole open in the Nicaraguan earth and suck him away to Caracas to live the rest of his Sandinista days waving palm fronds at Chavez and misting him with Evian.
• Saddam verdict: Should be better than the Rodney King riots!
• George Allen: Please, please, please don't run for president.
• Heather Mills: Has not yet gotten a leg up on Paul McCartney.