Chris Wallace | danmurano.com

. . . announced a volunteer vendor in D.C. on K Street just outside the Metro hawking the newspaper “Street Sense.”
. . . Boy, that’s a phrase you don’t hear much of these Internet days, when everybody reads their junk off their mobiles. (They do have a website: streetsense.org.)
. . . But it was good to hear, especially for an (aging?) baby boomer. Brought back the glory days of yesteryear.

. . . “I’m 22. I’m all over the place, so my record (new album“Red”) is all over the place.”
. . . An advertising blitz.
. . . That’s an understatement.

“This storm is a monster,” said George Stephanopoulos in one breath and in the next got right down to politics and began talking with “This Week” first guest of the morning, Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, who appears on anything at the drop of a hat.
. . . To get the message out.
. . . “George,” as ABC always affectionately refers to him, talks fast, likes to move things right along -- at breakneck speed with hardly a pause at the end of a sentence. Barely time to take a breath.

. . . That’s how German Chancellor Angela Merkel found herself at Camp David over the weekend (and on Monday in Chicago for a NATO summit with 60 mostly-men world leaders) for a meeting of G-8 leaders to talk about the intertwined economies of the U.S , France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia and the looming debt crisis.
. . . She’s often the only woman in the room at all of those meetings she attends. Wonder if she’s lonely for female companionship.
. . . She seems to be the only leader that President Obama kisses when they meet. All the others are handshakes, very hetero.