The tide recedes but leaves behind
bright seashells on the sand.
The sun goes down, but gentle warmth
still lingers on the land.
The music stops, and yet it echoes on
in sweet refrains...
For every joy that passes,
something beautiful remains. 
Poor guy feels useless enough as it is.
PS - I want one of those $55 plates of macaroni and cheese.
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Because in a post about right-wing extremists' pathological statements about Iraq, he cites The Haunted Tank.
Yes, according to Yahoo (via the New York Daily News), the New York Yankees were the most-searched sports team of 2006. (Maybe fans were just wondering where the heck they were.)
Most-searched person or subject was Britney Spears.
And the top two most-searched news stories? Steve Irwin's fatal encounter with a stingray, and reality-TV sidekick son Daniel Smith's death three days after his half-sister was born in the Bahamas.
The war in Iraq came in third.
Susan Hallowell, director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, allows her body to be X-rayed by the 'backscatter' machine at the Transportation Security Administration in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The technology has not been widely used in the U.S. as an anti-terrorism tool because of privacy concerns.
Can a man named "Willard" win the White House?
Although he has yet to formally announce his bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, the outgoing Massachusetts governor, whose previous claim to fame was taking over the scandal-plagued 2002 Olympics, is checking out real estate for campaign headquarters, courting his fellow GOP governors, and discovering, on the Commonwealth's dime, that Asia is "an important region of the world."
Meanwhile, he's already in hot water for pleading plausible deniability on (subcontracted) illegal alien employees and a certain, ahem, opportunism with respect to gay rights. He's also just slashed $425 million from state social programs, mostly those that help the elderly and disabled, to build cred among less-than-compassionate conservatives. And, he's mum on whether he wears the traditional Mormon "temple garments", made popular by their appearance in Tony Kushner's Angels in America .
I tried really hard to find stuff to post that wouldn't make it look like Tom had added a Ladies' Auxiliary to the Monster Force. But here it is: food, kids, and shopping. Sorry. I'll try to be more butch in the future.
Menu for 2006 White House Holiday Receptions
But what are they serving in the Undisclosed Location?
Four-year-old Power Ranger Saves Family
CBS asks: Will his powers be used only for good?
Happy Holidays, Mr. President
This Christmas, give the gift of clue.
