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In case your subscription to Runner’s World has lapsed, here’s a link to a long interview with Sarah Palin, who describes the joy of sweat. Don’t miss the part when she encounters a mother bear.
The use of the flagged-draped chair and the inward-hung Blue Star flag (for her son in the Army) as photo props is causing some conniptions on the Web. But the photographs are worth it.



Kevin Horrigan is deputy editor of the editorial page. He writes editorials on local, state and national politics and public policy and also contributes a signed column to the Sunday Commentary Page. "The Old Sport" is a former sports columnist for the Post-Dispatch and for 10 years hosted radio talk shows on KMOX and KTRS in St. Louis. He lives in South St. Louis with his wife, Kate, and a dream of one day starting a professional catfish noodling tour.
-Breaking news? The only thing “breaking”, is the mind after this piece.
Where is the “news” part?
-Are you really on vacation Kevin, and this was just a phone-in?