Best line of the day, so far

“The price of oil rose to the point where it’s now sold exclusively through the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog.”

Bill in Portland Maine reporting on things that happened while he was away — many good lines.

Including:

“Eliot Spitzer thought he could get away with the kind of financial shennanigans that he used to bust people for as a prosecutor. He was—how you say—utterly, terribly and unbelievably wrong. If you, dear reader, take away one lesson from this whole sorry spectacle, remember this: if you’re gonna hire prostitutes, never pay cash. Barter barter barter! (Hint: the sexiest words in the English language to a hooker are, ‘Hey…how ’bout I go back to your place and clean your gutters?’)”