OK, HOW ABOUT LOWERING THE PRICES NOW?!?

Excuse Matt’s crankiness today. Wilma’s had her way with his region, he had to call in sick to the radio show Sunday because of laryngitis, and to add insult to injury, the new King Kong movie is 3 hours long. Got gas, dear?

To show our boy how much we care, we’re FedExing him a care package of stuff he can’t stand in line for: a crock pot full of chicken noodle soup with matzah balls. (Oh, Matt, I made half of them light and half cannonball-weight because I didn’t know how you preferred them. Never let it be said Matt Drudge doesn’t have balls.) He can keep the pot — marked with Drudge Blog and Drudge Forum’s URLs –with our compliments.

It’s true, though, that he can’t call in sick to his website readers. Anyone running a time-sensitive news site from South Florida needs a firm contingency plan for inclement weather. You can predict a hurricane but not a power outage or what possessions will get whacked by a falling object. I wonder how many times he has evacuated himself in the interest of protecting his hardware and how many times he’s sat through it all.