[nfldgirl]

Howard Dean acknowledged yesterday that he sold $15,000 in stock in five Vermont banks in 1991 after getting "inside information" from a state banking regulator soon after he became Vermont governor. Dean yesterday portrayed the sale as a bid to avoid a conflict of interest - not an attempt to profit from inside information.

FREE MARTHA! .... NOW!

[nfldgirl]

FREE MARTHA! .... NOW!

I don't really mean that! I'm being facetious. (While vacationing this past summer, I did happen to catch--in a bakery store window--a glimpse of a four-foot stuffed Pilsbury dough-boy holding a sign up that said "FREE MARTHA!" Struck me as humorous at the time.