It's like boxing. You're like boxing. Everything is boxing.

Mike Lupica writes about politics in America!:

"When [McCain] tries to throw a big punch, Obama slips it in the elegant way Ali used to, slips it and moves away and then jabs back and keeps piling up points."

As long as McCain isn't being compared to Gerry Cooney, I think we've successfully avoided any unnecessary racial overtones.

Still, I don't even think that's how Ali used to fight. Maybe Sugar Ray Leonard.


"Every time it happens, McCain looks a little more dazed and confused, to the point where even a lightweight like Palin starts to look as if she has a better sense of who she is than the guy at the top of the ticket ..."

Kind of like Boom Boom Mancini.


"... a notion that is frankly scarier than all 'Friday the 13th' movies combined."

Even scarier than all "Friday the 13th" movies? Combined?

That is really, really, really gosh darned scary.

All the "Friday the 13th" movies ... combined!

Not as scary as watching all the "Friday the 13th" movies back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back.

But all the "Friday the 13th" combined in one compact singularity of scariness.

Can you imagine such a scary thing?

That's how unbelievably scary it is that lightweight Sarah Palin starts to look as if she has a better sense of herself than John McCain does of himself.

I mean, "Friday the 13th Part VIII, Jason Takes Manhattan" was SO SCARY by itself, that I actually crapped in my pants while I was watching it.

Imagine how scary it would be when COMBINED with the other EIGHT "Friday the 13th" movies.

My goodness.

A wordsmith like Mike Lupica can really sends chills down my spine.

A modern-day Poe if there ever was one.