Wisest in the Land

The Smoking Gun has published some of the personal correspondence between Harriet Miers and the president:

In a 1997 Hallmark greeting card (adorned with a photo of a dog), Miers sent along belated birthday wishes and noted that "You are the best governor ever--deserving of great respect!"

Although hand-written, the dash is rendered as two short strokes--the way it might appear typographically. The entire note is written with the curlicued flourishes and multiple exclamation-points of a giddy adolescent. The card ends with a couple of solecisms: "At least for thirty days--[sic] you are not younger than me [sic]."