DID SOMETHING HAPPEN IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK?
Here are a some brief thoughts about Dick-Cheney-shot-a-guy-in-the-face-gate.
1. The consensus seems to be that he was probably drunk. That’s boring. Much more amusing, yet still pretty plausible, is the idea that he was playing a round of The Most Dangerous Game.
2. I wish Hunter S. Thompson were alive to see this.
3. A lot of commenters brought up the fact that what we should be discussing is the fact that Scooter Libby fingered Cheney for authorizing the leak of classified info to discredit opponents of the Iraq war, (as if Patrick Fitzgerald is waiting to see what the news headlines are before deciding whether to proceed…). As far as political scandals go this is kind of unserious I guess. And yet everyone recognizes an ill omen when they see one.
Beware the Ides of March, y’all.