Denver: Apple inside the perimeter

by Mark Silva

DENVER -- Update here on the apple-free zone:

No longer.

For all who read with great sympathy about the inability of your health-minded Swamp correspondent to carry an innocent, shiny red apple into the grounds of the Democratic National Convention over the weekend -- warned by the security sentinel at the gate that the forbidden fruit could be used as a projectile -- we are here to tell you that this was a Golden Delicious morning.

With le pomme secured soundly in ze vest pocket of ze tattered old blazer, your correspondent submitted to a thorough check of ze computer bag at ze gate and a full-body experience with a magnemometer. (If you're asking why we're toying with French here, it was the inspiration of the Trojancondoms bus, its side painted in silhouettes of man learning to walk upright, so to speak, blaring rock and roll music in a lot by the fence.)

If apples are unwelcome at the Pepsi Center where much of the convention is being staged, certainly there will be no place for them inside Invesco Field at Mile High, where the Democrat from Illiinois, Sen. Barack Obama, will accept his party's nomination.

Having breached the perimeter of the Pepsi compound with the apple, your correpondent assures you that he has no intention of hurling it at anyone.

If fact, we're about to take a first bite.

Mmmm. Juicy.

Apple? What apple?