From the AP:

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman who had a physical altercation with a police officer, is speaking out about the episode after saying she regretted the incident. But she has refused to apologize in a statement and a brief on-camera interview. The six-term congresswoman apparently struck a Capitol Police officer when he tried to stop her from entering a House office building without going through a metal detector.

These guys didn’t apologize, and these guys didn’t either, despite the fact that they should know the right thing to do.

Whatever. It’s been a long week. We’re done.

Have a great weekend.

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Based on our most recent e-mail exchange with “A-MAN-duh,” we’ve decided it’s pointless to engage with Strumpette any further — or rather, Furthermore.

For those of you who wish to engage in sex talk with a dude, go for it.

The jig’s up. It’s all over but the humiliating conclusion. Guess cranky B.L. was right all along.

Happy early April Fool’s.

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We stumbled across this blog this morning and it’s pretty interesting — although not necessarily safe for work. It’s The Reverse Cowgirl, by author Susannah Breslin. For the lusty geeks who have been courting Strumpette, maybe it’s time to find an honest woman like Susannah.

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A fascinating read from Bloomberg News:

Royal Dutch Shell PLC has one word to offer on the subject of its musical oil barrels.

“What?” says Shell spokeswoman Alexandra Wright in London.

The World Cup is about to change Shell’s tune.

“Oil drum music is infectious,” says Sepp Blatter, the president of Federation Internationale de Football Association, soccer’s global governing body and organizer of the 2006 World Cup in Germany in June…

More than a few thousand of those World Cup drummers will probably be beating Shell oil barrels…

And therein lies the corporate dilemma of Gerard Mitchell, country head of Shell Trinidad Ltd.

“It’s officially against corporate policy for us to hand out oil barrels,” the 37-year-old Mitchell frets. “We really don’t know what to do about all this.”…

A Shell executive in 1946 made history’s first steel drum from an empty barrel of tractor lubricant bearing the company’s distinctive clamshell insignia.

According to American jazz musician Andy Narrell, Shell oil-barrel pans made between 1946 and 1967 are as renowned and desirable as the Cremonese violins of Antonio Stradivari, Nicolo Amati and Giuseppe Guarneri. Even the barrels made today are in high demand among pan players…

Unfortunately, says a Shell spokesperson:

“Let me state for the record that our used drums are disposed of properly and that Shell health and safety regulations prevent the use of empty drums for anything but Shell oil products.”

Those environmental regulations … what a killjoy.

Here’s an idea: Why doesn’t Shell make a separate version of its barrels expressly for the drummers? (That’s why we’re in PR, folks — brains!)

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