Taki On A Roll: No, that's not the Second Avenue Deli special. That's the New York Press' irrepressible Greek millionaire bon vivant and columnist Taki Theodoracopulos (easy for us to say) to whom not enough attention is paid. Here he takes on Sam Waksal as a social climber and Paul Krugman and his big, old lie about W. One thing to know about Taki. Once, when he was out swimming, someone blew up his yacht. One can't get much more jet-set then that.

Legal Wimps Balk at Walk: The ACLU says the rich are different from the rest of us and shouldn't be humiliated by being arrested, cuffed and walked in front of TV cameras and reporters. Such a caring, sensitive organization they are. The Brits have a proper response to such wrong-headed thinking, "Hard cheese."

Show Me Yours I'll Show You Mine: A staffer for Hillary Clinton seems to have had one too many Cosmopolitans and got jiggy at New York's Ritz Carlton bar the other night. She got herself thrown out. Pretty sorry behavior for a Senator's staffer but at least she wasn't smoking.

Rock Bottom: With some New York stations saying they won't even run ads on Sept. 11, local dems plan to risk scorn by producing an ad featuring 40 dems reading the Gettysburg address and run it the night before. They fear ceremonies featuring Republican officials on duty that fateful day may upstage them. Hillary says she won't participate. Well, no one ever said she was stupid.

The Disposable Man: Bill Clinton has always had remarkable luck in getting a few semi-clones to carry his dirty water but Terry McAuliffe, the human Pez-Dispenser, wins the prize. David Limbaugh's excellent column spells out McAuliffe's transparent act and ultimate fate in no uncertain terms.

LDotter Note: Our West Coast office, better known as Sheehan's Lair, has been without air conditioning and basic power all week. It is 115 in Palm Springs and Amy, Igor et al have kept on keeping on. New York is bad but we can't fry Spam on the sidewalk like they can.

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