"Well, I always try to be provocative in my headlines"

Checking in on our Site Meter stats this afternoon -- for the eleventy-second time today -- we noticed mid afternoon that suddenly, instead of the typical 10-30 visitors in the last hour, there were 703 visitors eyeballing the site at that very moment. Ah, yes. An Instalanche, but not for the post we'd most recently sent to the Professor -- "Was blind but now I see" -- but for our homage to Dick Cheney of a couple of days back, with Tiny herself in the frontispiece.

"Well, I always try to be provocative in my headlines," I offered Tuck as we watched in awe the growing Instaspike for "Don't mess with my Dick":

We: Are you embarassed?
He: Not at all. Congratulations.

Talk about messing with our Dick. Here's the latest screenshot of our Instaspike c. 5:15 p.m. As we always say, girls just wanna have fun. Update at 6:51 p.m. as we're preparing to sign off: 1081 visitors in the last hour and 4711 so far today.

Pretty timely given the unpleasantness in Bagram this morning. When the news broke in the wee hours on CNN International of a deadly suicide truck bombing at the periphery of the air base where Dick Cheney was staying in Afghanistan during a "secret" visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan, a knife of adrenaline shot through our gut. Once we knew the VPOTUS was unharmed, we wanted to know how come "the" Taliban knew that Cheney was in town. It was only much later in the day that we learned of a possible explanation:

A suicide attack at an Afghan air base where US vice-president Dick Cheney was staying shows that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have penetrated local intelligence agencies, analysts and officials said.

"Penetrated local intelligence agencies"? As Stephen Dedalus delved and Molly spanned:

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

Same old same old.

Comments

[Teresa]

Congratulations on the Instalanche. Lucky you - he put up the title and didn't excerpt. *grin* That always brings more readers calling... especially with such a terrific title.

[Laura Lee Donoho]

Well done Sissy. I loved the slightly naughty title. Vice President Cheney deserves the thanks of our nation for his service throughout the past six years instead of all the insanity.

I went to a rally V.P. Cheney attended in 2004 and was able to shake his hand. Very firm grip and warm hand. Plus he took his time talking to people going though the ropeline. Thank goodness he was far away from the mad Taliban bomber.

[hnav]

wow !

was the discussion of Britney more popular?