Hack Hack

Home from London with a nasty cough that I inflicted on an entire widebody of unwilling travellers yesterday--I really cannot imagine why they did not just pitch me out.  Meanwhile, here's the quote of the day, actually left over from Sunday, in the New York Times:

You look at Ira, you’re sure you’re going to find one of those punch cards in his wallet that’s going to get him that 11th tan for free.

Link John Eligon's superb profile of Ira Judelson, bail bondsman to the stars.  Doing a personality piece about the bail bondsman is one of the evergreen fallbacks in the news biz, but this one is unusually good..

Off for a nap.