You missed my favorite detail from that story, the section in which Levi explains that he’s expecting a son.

“Johnston hinted he’s expecting a boy, but he declined to discuss baby names.

“I’m looking forward to having him,” he said. “I’m going to take him hunting and fishing. He’ll be everywhere with me.”

I hope he’s able to formulate an alternative plan quickly if he gets a daughter–not to mention that, whatever the sex of the baby, considerable investments of time and effort are required to get the kid to the point of being able to handle a gun or a fishing rod.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27160532

an excerpt -

The soft-spoken teenager discussed his relationship with Palin and how life has changed with fatherhood fast approaching. He agreed to talk despite the presidential campaign’s advice in the days following Gov. Sarah Palin’s nomination to avoid the media. “They’re not telling me anything right now,” Johnston said as he checked his Blackberry. “It’s pretty chill.”

and

“We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid,” he said. “That was the plan from the start.” While Johnston provided few details about next summer’s wedding, the planning has started: A cousin will likely be his best man, and he has asked two hockey buddies, Ben Barber and Dane Wilson, to be groomsmen.Barber doesn’t think anyone pressured Johnston into marriage.
“If he thought it wasn’t the right thing to do he probably wouldn’t do it,” he said.

and

Johnston is an avid hunter. He’s dark haired, tall and muscular, sports a bit of stubble and drives a red Chevy Silverado truck. He’s hunted bears, sheep, elk, and caribou. Some of the antlers are scattered about his yard. Last July on a caribou hunt he lost a ring that Palin had given him. He said he decided to tattoo her name on the finger and not bother with more rings because he’d just lose them anyway.

I didn’t know folks hunted sheep…but anyway, you get the idea that letting the Johnson out of his Levis – something every fellow has either done or strived to do – exploded in his face (so to speak) much more astoundingly than anyone would ever have guessed!

There was brief chortling when i saw mine was down ONLY 12%, while hers were down more like 20% . . . then we saw they were all “as of 9/30.”

And in the TMI dept., i’m ready for the zombies to come take me — it may be that my whole bp problem is tied to deep, severe sinus infections that are slow to clear up even with radical albeit non-surgical measures. But thanks for the kind words, and i’ll stay a bit shadowy through the election, so as not to say anything that makes anyone say anything to me that tempts me again to type any intercourse-thyself-related retorts into a comment box and hit “Submit.”

Isn’t that just always creepy, or is it just neo-con me, having to click “Submit” all the time? Oh, and Mr. Burns, i think you owe me a nice color copy of that clever comic turn with the shoulder mounted alien! We’re both indebted, of course, to Robert Heinlein for the original in “The Puppet Masters,” but do not, under any circumstances, watch the Donald Sutherland movie of the same name. Aiiiiiieeeee. You’d rather watch a zombie movie, NTTAWWT.

Hope you know this hasn’t exactly been a big liberal schadenfreude party here in your absence, what with the devaluation of all of our savings and retirement accounts. I’ll be on Lisinopril if this shit keeps up.

Hope you’re doing better. (And seeing the light, fer Chrissake.)

Dexter, i’m checking back with my gp on lisinopril; she’s got me on singulair already, so it’s possibly a very useful point. Thanks!

Thanks for the link. Un-freaking-believable!