My Wichita Faro game (gleeson.us/faro) just won another award today. It is now the “Featured Site” at the Cyberguide to Wichita, Kansas. Don’t believe me? It’s right there on their home page, chief. In a sidebar, with a screen shot, in color.

I like winning website awards. Like the dad in A Christmas Story, I swell up with pride and boast to my skeptical wife, “What do you mean, ‘what is it?’ Why, it’s a major award!” If I could put them in our parlor room window, I would.

If you care to see all the awards Wichita Faro has earned to date, please direct your browser to gleeson.us/faro/awards.

Did you catch last night’s debate? A long 90 minutes.

LEHRER: The candidates have agreed to strict rules for tonight’s debate. The green lights on each podium mean the speaker has 30 seconds left. A yellow light means 15 seconds, a red light means five seconds, and a flashing red light means his time is up, and he must give his final answer. A purple light means a Daily Double, and this bell…

(bell rings)

…means the candidate can buy a vowel. During the course of the debate, if either candidate says tonight’s Secret Word, I will sound this siren…

(siren)

…and the candidate will advance to the Bonus Round. For our viewers at home, here is tonight’s Secret Word.

ANNOUNCER: The word is “vociferously.”

LEHRER: Thank you. Now please join me in welcoming tonight’s candidates, President George Bush and War Hero Gentleman Senator John Kerry!

(Candidates enter.)

And then after welcoming them, the audience will please step into the sound-proof booth until the 90-minute timer chimes. The first question goes to the challenger Senator Kerry. Senator, how would you make America safer from terrorist attacks?

KERRY: I’ll answer that, Jim. But first, I need to say that we’re in Florida. I want the people of Florida here in Florida to know that Florida has my best wishes. Hellllooooo, Florida! Also, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Now, your question, which I think was about Iraq. This president responded to 9/11 by invading Iraq. That’s as if Roosevelt had responded to Pearl Harbor by invading North Africa or someplace. I can do better. Just yesterday, I met a woman in Pennsylvania whose son or daughter was fighting in Iraq. She had to hold a bake sale in Ohio to buy tracer rounds for his or her M-60. Carrot cake, I think. I ate so much of it that my skin turned orange. I can do better.

LEHRER: Mr. President, you have 90 seconds. How would you make America safer from terrorist attacks?

BUSH: Vociferously.

(siren)

LEHRER: We have a winner.

(UPDATE: Bill at INDC Journal thinks it was a draw. He must have watched a different channel than I did.)