WEDNESDAY'S HUM ( 9-26-06 )

DUBIE TUESDAY
Lt. Gov Brian Dubie welcomed back from Iraq with solid poll numbers. Not receiving a lot of press was Repub chair Jim Barnett's rebuttal to Dem speaker Gaye Symington and her criticism of Dubie's hurried deployment. Read Barnett's terse, stinging statement here.

THE BOY WHO CRIED BREAKING NEWS
Fox started it - you know - the whole breaking news thing when it wasn't really breaking news. Well, MSNBC took it to another level yesterday with a screaming BREAKING NEWS tag and then, "Paris Hilton sentenced for DUI!" My God, what is next? BREAKING NEWS "John Travolta seen yanking nose hair on the Pacific Coast Highway!" Oh death - where is thy sting?

BREAKING NEWS - ED SHAMY FUNNY
A few chuckles from Shamy's column yesterday in the Free Press. Oh no, is he growing on us?
By the way, Ed - the only way to make it through Essex Junction Five Corners intersection hell without becoming shepherd's pie is to use one of those pedestrian buttons.