“Who would have thought, that this would have turned into ‘The 3 Stooges Movie’..”
– Jimmy Kimmel, ABC comedy show host
[ talking about the Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad, people showing up in underwear & "take that hammer & hit it on your head" ]

I was writing this post, & J. Kimmel was joking about Cheney & Saddam Hussein trial. Funny thing..there are 2 “The 3 Stooges Movie” on opposite sides of the world: US administration & it’s Kangaroo-trial for Hussein.

There aren’t Hollywood writers who can dream up scripts like this: “Sometimes Truth is Stranger than Fiction/TV [ Art imitating Life ]”

Maybe that Novel about bungling Mafia is a dead-on parody of BushCo:

As fresh and outrageously entertaining as when it first drew America’s attention to the comic underbelly of New York City’s criminal underworld, Jimmy Breslin’s bestselling first novel focuses on a Mafia turf war (its focus, in turn, is a Brooklyn bicycle race) and introduces the most hilariously unsavory cast of characters that ever tossed a guy into Sheepshead Bay with a jukebox around his neck.
– The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight: A Novel by Jimmy Breslin

Not surprisingly, another blog has picked up on “The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight”.

Another blog has found another factoid related to the incident, “beer drunkedness”:

Alert reader StickDog at DU caught this tidbit. When first posted, NBC news quoted Katharine Armstrong as saying:

“There may be a beer or two in there,” she said, “but remember not everyone in the party was shooting.”.

About an hour later, the quote was deleted from the story.

The original text was captured by Google and you can see it here.

BushCo still has major clout as they managed to remove even this small mention of alcohol.

It begins to make sense that Cheney refused to speak with a deputy until later Sunday morning, if there was a danger of the deputy would smell beer or notice Cheney was obviously drunk.

Update: DU’s detectives come through again with a screen shot of the actual story before it was scrubbed.

Shee.ii..tt. This Shotgun-gate gets worse & worse!! SWI: “Shooting while Intoxicated”. I also heard it was illegal, a permit wasn’t accrued..Cheney sheepishly sent in a $7 payment afterwards.

WHAT A JOKE.

How many dim-witted cabinet officials does it take to change a light-bulb?
How many beers does it take before the VP shoots someone in his own party?

“You’re never sure how many beers you had the previous night”
– Heineken Uncertainty Principle
[ this actually belongs under the other thread, "Bad Physics Jokes" ]

It’s certainly a sensible recommendation, if indeed that’s what it was, but it seems the people running the show already harbor a considerable amount of contempt for academia, as overrun as it is with nihilistic liberals steeped in their own bias, who they feel (not entirely without justification, at least in some circumstances) are equally contemptuous of conservatives.

This is not in any way to denigrate Dr. Carroll’s rather brilliant satire, but I kind of doubt the subjects really can be bothered to read what “left-wing academics” think of them. I suspect this mild persecution complex is at least part of what allows them to function as the mounting reality of their incompetence sinks in.