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When Things Go Bad

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

• TITLE: "When Things Go Wrong" There's a variant of Murphy's Law in here, I do believe.

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• "... A Trip to Paris ..." Here are the links to

  Chapter 1: I'm My Own Grandpa.
  Chapter 2: What's the Difference between First Class and Coach?.
  Chapter 3: Not Much About Paris.

• "... Dave Espo Here's the link to the Espo piece from over the weekend

• "... Alexander Bolton Here's the link to The Hill piece about the Kennedy drama.

• "... Curly Howard Here's a link to Curly's bio.

• "... Keyser Soz� The mysterious Voldemort-like character in the brilliant 1995 film, "Usual Suspects."

• "... PacSat Studios If you need a studio in Austin, Texas, I highly recommend the folks at PacSat Studios.

• "... Soitenly! Another Curly-ism.

• Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  
  Here I was pretending to be trying to decide whether or not to purchase the new Harry Potter book. In fact, I had already elbowed my way to the front of the line, knocked down a little girl, and threatened a woman's small dog to get this copy.
  
  
  
  And here's the Ed Gillespie story:

  When I returned to Washington in January, 1996, Ed was the communications director for the Republican National Committee which was chaired by Haley Barbour.

  My job was to be the communications director for Speaker Newt Gingrich's political shop.

  In the normal course of events in Your Nation's Capital, someone in Ed's position, upon hearing that someone like me was going to be - not just in the building, but actually on the same floor - would have said something like, "I don't care who he is or who he knows or what he's done before. I'm the communications director and if he gets in my way he'll be a pile of bubbling protoplasm by the time I'm done with him."

  "Or," as Dr. Samuel Johnson once said, "words to a like effect."

  What he actually did was to come down to my little closet of an office, welcomed me back to Washington, and introduce himself by saying that he wanted me to consider myself an ex-officio member of his staff - meaning I was automatically invited to any meeting he was having if I thought it would be useful to be there.

  That's the kind of guy Ed Gillespie is.

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•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  
  Howard Dean who surprised everyone by announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination this weekend, then showed his multiethnicity by dancing a hora with some supporters who just happened to be available to be in the frame.

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