The All-Onomatopoeic Team has been announced at Elysian Fields Quarterly. Today's battery: Klopp-Klumpp.

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We're gonna party like it's 1988: Old friend Ellis Burks' re-signing with the Red Sox recalls the time he was pressed into service for a photo-op playing catch with 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis. Wonder if Burks will be getting a call from the Duke's lieutenant-governor this year.

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So this horse walks into a bar: Boston tabloid columnist Howie Carr gives the comprehensive low-down on Jawn Kerry in today's New York Post. Clip and save.

On, Wisconsin: Cheeseheads, do your duty.

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Bishop: The text, vic! Don't say the text!
(Cut back to vicar.)
First Vicar: Leviticus 3-14. . .
(The pulpit explodes. Vicar disappears in smoke, flying up into the air. Cut to close-up of the bishop. Behind him there is smoke and people rushing about. Sound of people scrambling over pews in panic etc.)
Bishop: We was too late. The Reverend Grundy bit the ceiling.

Doesn't the Episcopal hierarchy of Massachusetts remind you of the Monty Python sketch "The Bishop"?

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Throw your voice!

Free Republic and Fr. Sibley take up the phenomenon of the Ventriloquial Mass, i.e., for kids, with a puppet (your choice of Jerry Mahoney or Danny O'Day).

For comic-book ad nostalgists: onion-gum and joy-buzzer magnets for the fridge.

Meantime, a bio of Mack Sennett's clowns is panned.

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Vote early and often in the First Annual St. Blog's Awards. And whoever nominated me – thanks much!

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If it stays fair…It's gone! Another classic Fisk from Dale Price.

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Joe Lieberman's exit from the race leaves the Democratic field a "confederacy of hucksters," writes R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

A tribute to Lieberman and photos of one of his New Hampshire volunteers in Lieberman campaign yarmulke are featured at Off the Fence.

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Cubans try to sail to freedom in a '59 Buick: We should have let them in, says the NY Sun.