Apparently Sarah Hepola is/was located in NY for this article. The nearest Jack in the Box to NY is either in Illinois or North Carolina.

...where Jack Bauer head-butts the bad guy.

"I'm as ethical as the next bloke, but if I'm hungry I'll eat a panda sandwich."

"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength."

Is Liberty University recognized by any of the usual accreditation organizations?

...as long as he didn't abort no babies.

...the Facebook fan page entitled "Telling Dick Cheney to shut the hell up" has gained over 200,000 fans in less than two weeks.

Is Crist's first name mentioned anywhere in this article?

...for adding Crist's first name and the state he governs in response to my earlier post.

...about "crossed lines"? Were they playing tic-tac-toe?

Not entirely true. It is my understanding that many women take time and attention to what they are wearing *under* the burqa, especially since the burqa typically is not worn within the home.

...taking on David Letterman in "Celebrity Death Match."

...just what it is that somebody has on her that has caused her to resign. I'm still waiting to find out what damaging situation caused Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico to turn down the Obama administration job as Secretary of Whatever-it-was-Supposed-to-Be. Geez, what is it with governors lately?

--Could Sarah Palin be bipolar?

If you are in fact a pharmacist in NC, I would think you'd know that the acronym is HIPAA, not HIPPA.

...the first three paragraphs of this article to Orly Taitz. But it wouldn't change anything.

I hope this will reduce or curtail the robocalls, but I'm not so sure. I own a small business, and I have noticed that in recent years an increasing number of solicitations and robocalls either 1) have forged or altered Caller ID info or 2) originate in Canada. If you can't identify 'em, how are you going to prosecute?

Your unlisted number provides you no protection. Many robocallers simply dial every number in sequence.

I wish it was as simple as you make it. My business gets a lot of callers on cell phones inquiring about our hours, etc. and many of them are visiting from out-of-town. As a result, I get lots of calls with Caller ID info that reads "Out of Area" or "Unknown" and/or area codes I don't recognize. Until I answer, I have no way of knowing who is legit.

Surely you mean "...what has transpired." Right?

...there's an old saying that women need a reason to have sex whereas men just need a place.

I received the following e-mail yesterday from my former cardiologists (I have moved out-of-state, away from their practice). I don't think I am equipped with the info necessary to judge the veracity of the position being taken. I am interested in what Salon's readers make of this:

A Letter To Our Patients

The Cardiovascular Group is privileged to provide your cardiovascular care, and we are proud of the high quality services we provide to the Northern Virginia area. However, we are very concerned that proposed Medicare regulations, if implemented, will severely restrict our ability to continue providing all the services you have come to expect from us. Therefore, we are taking the unprecedented step of contacting our patients to alert them to the situation we face.

If implemented as proposed, the 2010 Medicare regulations will force cardiology practices such as ours to reduce services that we can provide in our offices. If these rules are put in place, many cardiology patients will have to go to the hospital to obtain imaging services, rather than having the tests performed in the office to be interpreted by their cardiologist with the results provided quickly back to the patient. Medicare patients will have higher co-pays, and everyone will have longer wait times for tests and results. Many of these new rules are based on incorrect data that the government has used to generate revised reimbursement rates.

We ask that you help protect your access to cardiac care by contacting your legislators in Congress. We urge you to visit www.guardingheartsalliance.org/ where you can learn more about what's at stake for America's cardiac patients. The website makes it easy to email your senators and representatives and ask them to intervene on your behalf with Medicare before it's too late. Only a few weeks remain before Medicare finalizes its regulations, so we hope you will go to www.guardingheartsalliance.org/ as soon as you can.

Cardiovascular disease takes more lives each year than cancer, accidents and diabetes combined. But advances in cardiology during the past 10 years have reduced heart-related deaths and the severity of heart-related illness by 27 percent. That's important, because the urgent need for this lifesaving specialty will increase 60 percent in the next 15 years as baby boomers advance in age and because the current shortage of cardiologists is expected to worsen over that time.

Please help us continue to treat our patients' cardiac disease and ensure that the strides we have made in fighting our country's Number One killer have not been in vain. Please contact your legislators today.

Thank you.

The physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, technicians and staff of The Cardiovascular Group

[address info removed]

I honestly don't know if my former cardiologists are affiliated with an outpatient cath lab or not; my cath was in a hospital, it was eight years ago, and I moved away over six years ago.

As I said earlier, I'm not well-versed enough to know whether their opinion (or *any* doctor's opinion) on the issue is credible or even worthy of note. After all, I'm old enough to remember how 4 out of 5 doctors recommended cigarettes.

...Don Martin about this week's strip. And that's a good thing! (BTW: I just discovered that Al Feldstein, who edited "MAD" Magazine for so many years, died in June. R.I.P.)

...was a slogan made popular by the "Superman" TV show (a product of the Fifties) rather than by the comic book (which began in the late Thirties).