QUOTE OF THE DAY….From waitress Anita Esterday on press corps fascination over whether Hillary Clinton left her a tip during a campaign stop:

You people are really nuts. There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.

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