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March 9, 2008

Bush sings at Gridiron dinner; Great screen cleaner; Hookup with a hitwoman

Gridiron dinner: The tribune's Swamp blog gets the good stuff the annual press shindig: Bush's Texan farewell: Brown, brown grass of home.

by Mark Silva

This is the first of all press reports, and a full Swamp there's-got-to-be-a-morning-after account from the supposedly "off-the-record," rollicking annual dinner of the Gridiron Club - President George W. Bush's last hurrah - in which the president, donning a tan cowboy hat with white-tie tuxedo, serenaded the full establishment press and governmental hierarchy of Washington on Saturday night with an off-tune but spot-on Texas-waltz rendition of "The Brown, Brown Grass of Home."

"Yes, you're all going to miss me, the way you used to quiz me," Bush sang, "but soon I'll touch the brown, brown grass of home."

Not only the president, but also most of his Cabinet and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff turned out for a dinner that ran well over four hours and featured Bush's fellow Texan, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, predicting this is going to be a great year for the Republicans, and why wouldn't it be - they "started outreach many, many months ago, in the airport men's room."...

Kudos to the Swamp for writing down many more jokes for us. Good read.

F11 makes it full screen: The best screen cleaner ever! Well worth a click.

Hemming way too much: 'I fell in love with a female assassin'

Young danger junkie hooks up with cute wetwork chick in war-torn Colombia.

Soon to be a major motion picture, but this summary flattens the tale with intermittent breast-beating.

The photo is of author Jason P. Howe and Marylin in 2003.

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