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Considering Pepe (he of the $175 haircuts), like Blubba Clinton, has never held a real job in his life (okay, except for a couple years as a prosecutor 30 years ago), I don't think he'd cope very well with the regimen you've suggested. Might get a blister or something. You don't have to be a "Bushie" to appreciate the contrast between Dubya and his chainsaw, and Poofy Pepe and his manicured nails.

A little unsettling:

A discarded box filled with terror-related books, manuals and literature was picked up yesterday by sanitation workers in Astoria, Queens - sparking concern of a local terrorism plot. Then things got even more interesting. The workers brought their find to the 114th Precinct stationhouse in Astoria, where cops detected a high level of radiation in the material. Cops immediately were ordered to leave the building.

"Out of an abundance of caution, the precinct was briefly evacuated. Once it was determined it was nothing threatening in the material, everyone was allowed back in the building," said NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Paul Browne. Browne said the high "gamma" reading could have been triggered by garbage in the back of the sanitation truck.

The materials that sparked the alarm were left on the curb by the elderly owner of a three-story house on 36th St. The landlord had evicted a tenant and was trashing his belongings. The tenant, a 46-year-old taxi driver from Pakistan, is now being sought for questioning, said police officials, who asked that the man's name be withheld.

"The whole matter is under investigation," Browne said. source

Could Al Franken have been John Kerry's secret weapon in the Democratic primaries?

In December, the humorist convened a cadre of New York know-it-alls - including Time managing editor Jim Kelly, Eric Alterman from The Nation, the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg and political historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. - to meet Kerry at a private gathering at his upper West Side apartment.

"I think the idea was to put John Kerry into the belly of the beast," Kelly tells this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. "It may have been the actual beginning of the new approach he took - 'I'm going to stay in this room and take every question you throw at me.' "

When the candidate and comedian met again seven weeks later, Kerry's nomination was looking secure.

"I told him I'm taking credit for the turnaround," Franken said. "He said, 'I knew you would.' "

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/174804p-152230c.html