Move along, journalist; there's no free liquor here -- Dave Barry

[Khephra]

Dave Barry | Move along, journalist; there's no free liquor here

This is turning out to be WAY more exciting than the Democratic convention. At the Democratic convention, the only dramatic tension came from wondering, when you went to a party, whether Ben Affleck would be there, or Ben Affleck plus a Baldwin brother.

But here in New York, a LOT of stuff is happening. Maybe too much stuff. This is what I was thinking when I was having my right kidney probed by a billy club, at the other end of which was a New York City police officer the size of a Humvee.

This happened in Herald Square at rush hour. On hand for the festivities were hundreds of slogan-shouting protesters, hundreds of police, hundreds of media people, the occasional Republican delegate with the facial expression of a gerbil realizing it has just been put inside a python cage, and 3.6 million New York City residents who just wanted to get on the damn subway and go home.

I was standing with a clot of media people observing this scene when a bunch of protesters started moving toward an area where the police didn't want them to be. Unfortunately, this put my clot directly between the protesters and the police, and suddenly a dozen officers, including Officer Humvee, came charging at us shouting ``MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!''

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/barry/9560236.htm

[LittleApple81]

1. Loved the gerbil!!!! I LOL!

[A_Possum]

2. Yes!

and the baseless accusation about the llama