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My Naughty Boy of the Month Award (did you know we had one?) goes to Mark Steyn, for his column in The Spectator. He quoted Jodi Wilgoren of the New York Times, talking about the man who is obviously her preferred candidate: "Like a caged hamster, Senator John Kerry is restless on the road. He pokes at the perimeter of the campaign bubble that envelops him, constantly trying to break out for a walk around the block, a restaurant dinner . . ."

Then he wrote, "Why couldn't he have been a caged tiger? Isn't that what she's getting at? A noble beast, restless and prowling? A caged hamster's never struck me as being that interested in poking at the perimeter. He's happy on his little hamster wheel, going round and round and getting nowhere, occasionally pausing to chew his nuts. But he's not constantly trying to break out, unless he happens to be at a Hollywood fundraiser and a certain male movie star asks him back to his pad for a nightcap."

I really enjoyed that bit by Steyn.