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8:49

Megan - It appears we've been stood up.

8:50

Megan's Brain - That is does. I like you and all, but we work at home by ourselves, it's kind of nice to have conversations with other people.

8:51

Megan - Anna wants us just to write the "News at 10," but...

8:51

Megan's Brain - Sigh.

8:52

Megan - I think making this a more masturbatory hour is a better plan.

8:53

Megan's Brain - If only John Ensign had considered masturbation a viable option, his parents would not have had to pay off his mistress, her husband and their kids.

8:54

Megan - I'm afraid I've got to turn to Josh Marshall for this:

Which is more emasculating? Getting paid a hundred grand by the guy who screwed your wife? Or being a fifty-something United States senator and still needing mom and dad to cut the check to pay off your mistress and her husband?

8:57

Megan's Brain - This is where I get confused. I think Hampton demanding the money is pretty dickish, frankly, but if you're wife's gonna get fucked and you're going to buy into the idea that John Ensign was some sort of sexual Svengali she couldn't possibly resist and that her "inability" to resist had nothing to do with your lack of skills in bed or contempt for you (that, say, might be evidenced by the fact that she's telling you that kind of tall tale) without already feeling emasculated, I think you take the cash.

And, if you can't buy the silence of the husband of your mistress with your own money because you're a U.S. Senator, of course you launder it through your parents.

8:58

Megan - I do have to agree, Hampton stuck around for, what, like 6 more months after he got Tom Coburn to pressure Ensign into writing the letter while his wife kept fucking the dude, I'm thinking he's already long ago given up on feeling humiliation, which is why he's on the television talking about how good John Ensign was giving it to his wife.

9:00

Megan's Brain - I mean, also, where does Hampton get off asking for money to be made financially whole, since every job he's had since leaving Ensign's office, Ensign got him? It's not like he was making less money as a lobbyist than a Hill staffer.

9:01

Megan - I'm guessing his bank account didn't contain the hole Hampton had trouble filling, or else his wife wouldn't have been fucking Ensign in the first place.

9:02

Megan's Brain - Which brings us, naturally, back to masturbation. Maybe Hampton's wife's the one that needed to masturbate more?

9:08

Megan - I mean, really, who doesn't need to masturbate more some times? I think if more people were getting themselves off, there'd be less war.

9:10

Megan's Brain - If you don't think Dick Cheney is a furious, chronic masturbator who shaves his palms daily and drinks the blood of infants to restore his lost eyesight, then you need more coffee!

9:10

Megan - I do need more coffee, it's true. We could talk about Sarah Palin when I get back?

9:11

Megan's Brain - We really need to stop thinking about Sarah Palin, given that I dreamt about her and Todd last night, caught in the eddies of a river in the midst of whitewater rafting.

9:14

Megan - Totally, dude, that was fucked up. I mean, she gave another interview, and she's mad at bloggers for saying she resigned over posing for naked pictures, which is a rumor I hadn't even heard but LOOK THERE I just republished it. Someone needs to turn off the Google alert with her name on it, swear.

9:17

Megan's Brain - And now the Anchorage Daily News is all like "the state would have paid those lawyers anyways!!1!" conveniently forgetting things like "opportunity cost" and that's the way the government accounts for every single project ever. To suggest that staff hours -- which could have been spent in other ways -- aren't an appropriate way to account for the cost of anything because they would've been paid anyway as if they wouldn't or didn't have any other work to do is just absurd.

9:20

Megan - And the AP is all like, "just because she and Todd only make $200,000 a year doesn't mean she couldn't do anything else to pay $500,000 in personal legal bills!!1!" ignoring the fact that, in fact, that's exactly what she's done by resigning AND she shouldn't've had to (see also: The Clintons) it's making me HAVE DREAMS ABOUT HER which didn't even happen during the elections so this shit really does need to stop.

9:23

Megan's Brain - We should have listened to Latoya yesterday and just quit it with the Palin news. Can we go back to talking about the protests in Iran? They're still going on and everything.

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