If you were reading over the weekend you might have noticed that I was in Yakima on Saturday for a Tea Party rally, an event that presented many interesting photographic opportunities, a chance to hear about Hitler from this guy, and fertile ground for exploring the question that's been nagging everyone since Tuesday: What's a Pike Street whore?

Today, some answers.

First up: Mary Ann Lockhart, 64, who you might remember from this business:


Next: a woman who told me her name was Deanna:


And finally: Kirk Groenig, 54, a spokesman for the Yakima Tea Partiers. He told me he'd never heard of anyone (other than Yakima-area resident Charles Alan Wilson) using the term "Pike Street whore," and so he had no idea what it means. But then Groenig told me something even more interesting: What he's really upset about is the bad language Sen. Patty Murray's been using to describe him:


About those offending words from Murray, Groenig added: "She obviously isn't a mom in tennis shoes anymore. Because moms don't say that."