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More indications that Kerry is either lazy or in very poor health...Rarely does he make it through a week campaigning without taking some kind of break...

He has a cold, poor baby, so the silky pony will sub for him tomorrow and probably Friday. Okay, colds happen. But he started the day today in a daycare center where he hugged and sneezed all over the poor children!!!

And get this. On Sat. he is going to take 4 days off to prepare for the debates. He is going to a resort in WI for FOUR DAYS. The man's wife has 5 homes and he is going to a resort!!!Amazing...four day debate prep for Kerry

What a creep...spreading his cold germs all over the wee ones who will take the germs home to their sibs and parents...

It was kind of funny yesterday when Kerry was trying to make a virulent, hardhitting attack on Bush, and his voice was so weak and scratchy, and breaking like an adolescent boy's. I realize anyone can get a cold or laryngitis, but still don't think Effin is in the best of health. Those four days aren't just to prepare for the debates, it's just another of his frequent rest stops. Maybe he can get in some windsurfing.

Another thing about Johnny Edwards filling in for Effin this week because of the latter's cold - did the Pony not have anything else to do? He has been the invisible boy during this campaign, especially in the past month. Maybe there is something to the speculation that Johnny's been kept under a rock by Effin's handlers so he won't outshine his cadaverous running mate.

Get your tickets now:

AS if Dan Rather didn't have enough problems, a new off-Broadway play is dredging up one of the strangest episodes in the CBS anchor's life. Playwright Paul Allman's dark comedy "Kenneth — What Is the Frequency?" is based on the 1986 mystery in which two well-dressed men beat Rather up outside his Upper East Side home while repeating that phrase. (The bizarre beat-down inspired R.E.M.'s song, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?") Fresh from a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the play debuts here Oct. 21 at 78th Street Theatre Lab. (PageSix)

Who is stranger, Cybill or Marlon:

AFTER he died last July, Marlon Brando's ashes were mixed together with those of his long-rumored lover Wally Cox and scat tered in Death Valley. Apparently Brando had kept Cox's ashes around since the star of the "Mr. Peepers" TV show, who was once his roommate, died in 1973. That wasn't Brando's only bizarre rela tionship. He was a frequent guest at Michael Jackson's Never land ranch. "The last time my father left his house to go any where, [it] was with Michael," Brando's son Miko told the Los Angeles Times. (PageSix)

Good advice -- Do you think they'll heed it?

Outside debate advisors to the Kerry campaign are telling Sen. John Kerry's team to cool the candidate's smugness. They said that they worry that Kerry will bring his practice of acting smarter than the President into the debates and that it could undermine his performance. The advisers said it's a typical characteristic of lawmakers, especially senators, who run for national office: Since they know more about the legislative process, they act like they know more than the president. Also, Kerry is known to make belittling comments about how Bush didn't get the high grades Kerry did in college. "They try to impress people about how smart they are," said one adviser of senators. But, he added, voters in presidential elections care more about how strong a leader the candidate is, not how smart.

But he started the day today in a daycare center where he hugged and sneezed all over the poor children!!!

And not only will the crumb crunchers take it home to their siblings and parents when those kiddies who've been exposed become sick, mommy or daddy will lose a day or two from work because you can't drop off your sick child at the day care.

Yep, Kerry's "in touch" with the little people.

What the caption would be if I were writing them at AP.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) expresses surprize when one of the little angels informs him that his mom will have to miss three days of work when he becomes sick with the cold Sen. Kerry has just infected him with at the Angel Sprouts Academy daycare center in Orlando, Florida, September 22, 2004. REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION