The Biggest Dick In America

Does anyone else want to kill Dick Cheney? I mean put both hands around his fat, fleshy windpipe and just choke the life out of the bastard? Or get not-quite-falling-down drunk and shoot him in the face with a shotgun? How about hang him from the end of a good, sturdy rope and film it all with a cell phone camera? Maybe just waterboard him once a day for every American who’s been killed or wounded in Iraq…

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The “B” And The “S”

A couple of stories had various jaws flapping today, neither of which reflects too well on the media, the punditocracy, or the so-called leadership position of the United States in world affairs. In one, certain quarters are up in arms over the cellphone camera recording of Saddam Hussein’s execution to which I linked yesterday. In the other, presumptive 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is learning quickly the calculus of celebrity in the modern age.

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