Ladder's 'bout to fall

From the Onion's year-end wrap-up, one of the best sentences ever:

The plight of Terri Schiavo, whose brain, according to doctors, has been mostly "non-sentient" and "liquids in suspension" since her heart stopped for five minutes in February of 1990, has come to the attention of Americans whose brains have been mostly sentiment and superstition for most of their lives.


FMFM: Side Three of Blonde on Blonde, which never fails. What a great-sounding band -- brass, Robbie, and the late great Kenny Buttrey.