41.   Sober, hard-working taxpayers of modest means were being asked to pay the bill for lavish-spending fat cats.

42.   That on-line conversation led to others, and before long people were asking her how to make a luscious cheesecake, or what to do with chicken breasts.

43.   Then Askin was gone.

44.   To ask for benefits is another.

45.   To ask is to answer.

46.   To ask that is to enter a world of confusion and doubt.

47.   To ask that question is to answer it.

48.   To ask forgiveness is harder for a public man than for most others.

49.   To most people, that question may sound as reasonable as asking what if down were up, or the XFL were a big, classy hit.

50.   To ask the question is to answer it.