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It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

Our dog is in rebellion.

Now, for those of you who have big dogs that, you know,

climb up on the kitchen table and search of food,

you'll think this is nothing.

But we have this aging Boston Terrier who, you know,

like all dogs, looks at you at meal time and acts like she hasn't

been fed in three weeks, even if she's just had a meal. But now there's a low table in the living

room. And one day I discovered that there was a box of junior mince,

you know, there was little cardboard boxes that someone had left,

and I saw that it had been mangled on the end,

and, you know, dogs are not supposed to eat chocolate, but she got a bit of it.

So, you know, there was a story to tell.

And yesterday, she went back to the same spot, and there was this shallow little bowl

of sour cream.

And she dipped her snout in it, and the face was all white as she was lapping away. I saw this and I

hastened to dispose of it, no longer fit for human consumption. So now a little bit more

weariness on the canine front. Joe Buck, who is one of the great sports announcers and

who I had the chance to interview a few years back

when the Washington Nationals were in the World Series

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