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Mets backstop Mike Piazza, who's walking down the aisle with one-time Playmate Alicia Rickter next weekend, is the latest in a long line of athletes to fall hard for a beauty who has posed in the buff before millions of, ahem, readers.

Iowahawk is one of the funniest satirists alive. I have been his fan since before either of us was a blogger, going back to the earliest stage of pre-Windows DOS-based internet conservatism. We have even broken bread together. Thus I am chagrinned to have missed until now his laugh-out-loud hilarious piece on the agonies of coastal parents living in trendy zip codes discovering that their children have been attracted to the dark side, the forbidden realm, and have taken to wearing trucker's caps, listening to country music, and going to livestock shows. The tone is letter-perfect, and the examples chosen...

MARCH 9--Meet Alice Regina Pike. The 35-year-old Georgia woman must think Wal-Mart cashiers are rather dumb, because she actually just tried to pass a $1 million bill at one of the retail chain's megastores. According to this amusing Covington Police Department report, Pike was attempting to pay for $1671.55 in merchandise, but a Wal-Mart clerk called over her manager when she was handed the bogus bill (instead of handing over $998,328.45 in change). As first reported by Joey Peters of the Newton Citizen, Pike was arrested for forgery and booked into the sheriff's lockup, where the below mug shot was...

Greg Spurlock has an interesting take on the old saying "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." When life handed Spurlock a wise-cracking Republican spoofing on his short-in-the-front, long-in-the-back haircut at the Fancy Farm picnic, he made a Web site. And a clever, insightful one at that. The site, www.mulletsforchandler.com, is Spurlock's answer to the young Ernie Fletcher supporter who waved a "Mullets for Chandler" sign above Spurlock's head during the political speeches at the Western Kentucky picnic two weeks ago. Spurlock is a staunch Democrat and a supporter of Fletcher's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Ben Chandler. He...

LANGLEY -- A man was killed Saturday when his long hair got caught in the amusement park ride he owned, pulling him up as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a fence. Doug McKay, 40, was the co-owner of Paradise Amusements, based in Post Falls, Idaho. He was spraying lubricant on the tracks of the Super Loop 2, a roller coaster-type ride at the Island County Fair on Whidbey Island. The ride was in progress at the time, and McKay's hair got caught on a car full of fairgoers, said sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Smith. He was pulled...

<p>Win or lose, the Brevard County Manatees and Vero Beach Dodgers are strongly advised to leave the field immediately following tonight's Florida State League baseball game in Viera.</p>

As an American citizen and a liberal Democrat I feel as though I have been kicked in my political gut and left breathless as a result of Tuesday's election. How President Bush could possibly campaign on making the tax cuts permanent and repealing the so called "death" tax to the detriment of the Social Security (which he promised not to touch) and Medicare trust funds and to the benefit to tax payers earning over $350,000 (the "truly" rich and greedy) while the deficits will stretch from here to the moon and beyond and will add billions and billions of dollars...