[A Balrog of Morgoth]

"Speaking last night to 8,000 people on 89-year-old Maggie West’s farm"

That's a misprint. Here's what the sycophant reporter should have written:

"Speaking last night to 8,000 pumpkins on 89-year-old Maggie West’s farm"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

About the right shape to carve a Kerry face.

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry holds up the pumpkin he chose at the Garringer Family Pumpkin Patch in Jeffersonville, Ohio October 16, 2004, part of a day-long campaign bus trip through Ohio. REUTERS/Brian Snyder