Scaring the Grim Reaper

How can such a fragile old guy be so hard to get rid of? The Associated Press reported yesterday on Torturin' Dick Cheney's latest in a long series of medical procedures, and it would seem that it's just a combination of misanthropism, inveterate lying, sheer evil and curmudgeonliness that is keeping him alive these days. Maybe he's just too damn mean to die. As is noted in Salon.com's War Room: In addition to an unspecified "foot condition" that forced him to use a cane Friday, the vice president has had "surgery to repair aneurysms behind both knees, four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a special pacemaker in his chest."

And that doesn't even get into the cloven-hoof-shoeing and forehead-horn-reduction surgery he has to undergo with some regularity. Nor the increasing numbers of puppies, kitties and virgin Third World babies that must be drained of their blood each morning to supply him with enough vital nutrients to make it through yet another day.

Say, speaking of blood and surgery, I've got a story to tell you folks... but that's for another post. Soon. I promise.