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For a guy who is a Regular Newspaper Writer, Charlie Madigan of the Chicago Tribune sure got into the spirit of this blogging thing REAL quick when the Trib sent him to New York to cover the RNC. How could anyone not click on a link that reads "Fox News Sucks!"?

What can you say about folks who have put on shocking red hair, outrageous tank tops and, perhaps most significantly, massive penises shaped in the form of silver missiles? I don't know what you would do, but the situation had "interview" written all over it for me.
So who made those lovely, pointy silver penises?

"Lockheed Martin," said one of the…(A Gleaner aside: Geeze, what to call them?…Okay, I have it)…Dicks, who said they were Dixie Dicks, or some approximation of that, in a sweet southern accent. The appendage was strapped so professionally to her groin (Was it actually a her? The Gleaner doesn't know what to say about that, either. Curse these New York performance artists) that it looked like she was born with it.

"You envy it, don't you?" I admitted that it was, indeed, impressive. "It takes a strong man to admit his penis is smaller," the Chick said.

I decided to change the subject, real fast.

Okay, so it sounds like he's going for the They're All a Bunch of Freaks angle here. But read the rest if you get a chance, he's really blown away by the numbers, and the passion, and has some shrewd appreciation of the media-playing going on. I enjoyed it, but I am a low and evil person.