One Long, Sustained Whatever From Maryscott O'Connor...

...And don't "long" and "sustained" mean pretty much the same thing?
And shame on the Washington Post's photographer, taking photos during this story on lefty blogs. I mean, look at the picture accompanying this article.
It should be obvious that this bathrobe-clad Thomasina Paine, in mid-rant, was about to reach the point where some particular vein was throbbing along the ridge of the forehead and one of the eyes was about to start moving independently of the other; maybe towards its twin, maybe away, in a most eccentric orbit. And the hapless photographer missed it! Such an opportunity lost! Well, anyway, she wrote a post about Darfur and a few dozen other impotent loons with poor-to-middling communication skills chimed in with comments. At least that really makes a difference to those suffering in Darfur.
A very sad and very, very pathetic picture it paints. Hope to revisit this tomorrow and plumb its depths...