"[T]hen a big group of people showed up just as the kids were treating the memorial more like a jungle gym and the parents were laughing."

"Then the veterans showed up, and they looked hurt more than angry. They were quiet."

NOTE: Meade and I have had encounters here in Madison over veterans monuments � here, here, here, and here.

"What is you favorite way to make people laugh?" VladimirPigPutin asked Alec Baldwin.

And he said:

Uh... favorite way to make people laugh... that's a good question. That's interesting. It's different for different kind of people. The people I like to make laugh most are children. So when I can make children laugh, my little daughter laugh, that's priceless. If I pretend I'm a lion, and I'm mauling her, and she just starts laughing, if I do it the right way �  my favorite way of making people laugh is to maul them like a lion, while they're in bed. I come into their bed and maul them like a lion. I should try that on older people to see if they like it. I will try it on my wife. Who knows? She might like it.