It Was So Thrilling, Some of Us Even Showed Up

Been awhile since you enjoyed the laffs at The Huffington Post? Here's a collection of opening lines from recent blog items:

• Erica Jong: "As usual, Bill Maher is right."
• Jerry and Joe Long: "A few random thoughts while trying to figure out how it is that Al Qaeda can even have websites?"
• Arianna Huffington: "Here I am at the 2005 Take Back America conference in Washington. I haven't seen this many committed progressives in one place since Pete Seeger and the Weavers disbanded."
• Randall Robinson: "I can no longer bear it. Even at the risk of being misunderstood. Of committing a gaffe of some magnitude or other - - a breach of some protocol, for instance, that I may not have heard of. Or, of some unwritten rule whose provenance no-one remembers anymore."
• Torie Osborn: "The excitement was contagious at the first (only) meeting of Mayor-Elect Antonio Villaraigosa's Transition Team at the Science Center in south LA on Monday. Many of the 82 of us were there."