FLY A U-2 RECONNAISSANCE SPYPLANE. The two-place model is the trainer for new pilots.

JUST ANOTHER SUNDAY ON THE GOLF COURSE ....

A nun walks into Mother Superior's office and plunks down into a chair. She lets out a sigh heavy with frustration.

"What troubles you, Sister?" asked the Mother Superior. "I thought this was the day you spent with your family."

"It was," sighed the Sister. "And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer before I devoted my life to Christ."

"I seem to recall that," the Mother Superior agreed. "So I take it your day of recreation was not relaxing?"

"Far from it," snorted the Sister. "In fact, I even took the Lord's name in vain today!"

"Goodness, Sister!" gasped the Mother Superior, astonished. "You must tell me all about it!"

"Well, we were on the fifth tee... and this hole is a monster, Mother -- a 450-yard Par 5, with a nasty dogleg right and a hidden green... and I hit the drive of my life. I creamed it. The sweetest swing I ever took. And it's flying straight and true, right along the line I wanted ... and it hits a bird in mid-flight!"

"Oh my!" commiserated the Mother. "How unfortunate! But surely that didn't make you blaspheme, Sister!"

"No, that wasn't it," admitted Sister. "While I was still trying to figure out what I was going to do, this squirrel runs out of the woods, grabs my ball and runs off down the fairway!"

"Oh, that would have made me blaspheme!" sympathized the Mother.

"But I didn't, Mother!" sobbed the Sister. "And I was so proud of myself! And while I was pondering whether this was a sign from God, this hawk swoops out of the sky and grabs the squirrel and flies off, with my ball still clutched in his paws!"

"So that's when you cursed," said the Mother with a knowing smile.

"Nope, that wasn't it either," cried the Sister, anguished, "because as the hawk started to fly out of sight, the squirrel started struggling, and the hawk dropped him right there on the green, and the ball popped out of his paws and rolled to about 18 inches from the cup!"

Mother Superior sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, fixed the Sister with a baleful stare and said ...

"You missed the f**king putt, didn't you?"

From my email.

A METAPHOR for ObamaCare.

YOU ONLY THOUGHT THE U.S. WAS $16.9 TRILLION IN DEBT; the real number is
a bit higher.

NOTE to married couples: have lots of slaves kids, America needs them.

LOBBYING? Or payback?

GLENN REYNOLDS on transforming America: Is a Constitutional Convention the answer? Probably not, given the political class pretty much ignores the current one.

IT'S ONE PRETTY CAR: Clemson University unveils its six-seat hybrid.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. Here's my favorite.

The NSA one was a close second.

HEH: A really, really green campaign.

YEAH, because unions were on the forefront of racial equality. My take? Now that blacks have been allowed to join unions, liberals want to keep them on the plantation.

We begin the liberal lead up to the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's speech on the National Mall....

EDUCATION SPENDING SOARS. Education? ... not so much.

NOT SO FAST: Congress is still in an ObamaCare trap. But they'll ignore it since both parties' butts are in the wringer.

Remember: ObamaCare is for little people.

HEH: Texas organization will arm and train 500 mothers to use guns during 'National Empowerment Day'.

THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS is proposing changes to its Code of Ethics. My recommendation was to put a period after the word 'persons'.

CHAMP FLIES; lights out.



If the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP) missile were ready for operational testing, I have the perfect site: Damascus, Syria.

ADDED: all offense, no defense.

ON OBAMACARE, "the lesson for Americans is that Democrats who passed ObamaCare didn't even understand what they were doing to themselves, much less to everyone else."

FINALLY, PAYBACK TIME: Just $431,000 to go. Shouldn't take much more than the rest of her life.