Dickhead of the Week - Minor Dickheads Edition

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It feels a bit unfair to pick on Randy "Richie" Cunningham. After all, he pleaded guilty to taking bribes from lobbyists and making himself rich in the meantime. I know he probably only admitted his guilt because he got caught, but unlike so many other Dickheads in the Senate, House, or White House, he did actually admit his guilt. And now, that corruptest of corrupt Republican Party is joining the parties of denunciation. That said, he's a Dickhead for what he did.

I'm adding a couple Democrats to my list for the first time in a while. Freddy Ferrer is a Minor Dickhead this week. Minor, mostly, in his sheer insignificance. And he's feeling pretty petty about his insignificance. He's blaming Bloomberg, the media, and pollsters for his mayoral loss here in New York, rather than taking responsibility for being a lifelong dullard, who felt entitled to be mayor simply for being Latino. If you want my vote, inspire me, Dickhead! Hell, even now you're not saying anything that makes me regret voting Green-not-Machine.

There were also a handful of Democrats who went hiding from John Murtha's It's-Time-To-Bring-Our-Troops-Home-Now speech. (Obviously, it would have been easy to hand out Dickhead awards to the many Republicans that attacked Murtha - from Dick(head) Cheney to Jean Schmidt who called Murtha a coward.) But it's time to call one particular Democrat to the carpet for his incredible spineless Dickheadedness...

Chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Rahm Emmanuel distanced himself from Murtha's impassioned speech with, "Jack Murtha went out and spoke for Jack Murtha." This is the guy in charge of 2006 midterms for the House? This man's a Dickhead, and this man is making Dickheads out of the entire Democratic Party.

It's Hump Day, Everybody!

So go get humping!

A Non-Latino Pickup

So the Mets got Billy Wagner to sign with them. At 34, he's another guy I worry about being past his prime, but there's no denying his effectiveness in closing games last year. With a fastball regularly hitting 100mph, he had a miniscule 1.51 ERA.

I hope Braden Looper got all his crap out of Billy's locker.

Report from Queens

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Yet another neighborhood homicide rocks 7-train commuters, as a bakery worker in Sunnyside/Woodside gets pushed in front of an oncoming train. With two murders in as many weeks, weary locals wonder whether their honeymoon with our fair borough is over. But even as tense neighbors scream at each other in hallways about all that fucking noise they make, it's not all news of Sunnycide, here, in Sunnyside. In fact, there are positive developments. More than six months in the making, the Cheesesteak Factory has finally had its grand opening, marked by an enthusiastic free food promotion during the most gluttonous of holidays this past weekend. It'll be a slow, artery-clogged death for us Sunnysiders now, thank you very much.

Scotland: Fact or Fiction?

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With its staggering beauty, national health care, and warm locals, Scotland is the single best place on earth.

OR IS IT??

A new Scottish Executive study has published the results of its research into racial attitudes in the northern part of the United Kingdom. A few highlights:

- 38% do not believe it's racist to use the terms "Paki" or "Chinky."

- 14% believe that it is not racist to physically attack people of other ethnic groups.

- 71% believe that those of other ethnicities living in Scotland need to do more to fit in to the "Scottish Way of Life."

Naturally, defining the SWOL becomes a challenge. Eating fried food? Being unemployed? Drinking shitloads of beer? Shepherding?

One thing is clear, however. The people of Scotland have finally found someone to blame for their ills. Other than the English, I mean.

Turns Out Brownie's Got Some Balls

Do all consultants come from the Here's-What-You-Shouldn't-Do point of view?

Seriously, who the fuck would hire this guy?

(If you don't feel like reading the whole article, make sure you read the quote from Brownie in the final paragraph. Man, it's a doozy.)

A Year Late, But Still...

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Last year, new Mets GM Omar Minaya had three free agent priorties - Pedro Martinez, Carlos Beltran, and Carlos Delgado, and in that order. Omar is baseball's first Latino GM, and he used his common heritage to woo the first two players on his list. When he got to Carlos D., he was all, "What do I care that we both speak Spanish? Gimme a good contract on a team that can win." Delgado went to the Marlins.

I had hoped that Delgado would've been the top priority last year. I feared that Pedro was past his prime (which he is, but he was still pretty sharp most of the year) and that Beltran was overrated (which he seems to be so far). I thought Delgado was the man to get.

Well, the Florida Marlins are having a fire sale (poor Joe Girardi is inheriting half the team he thought he was getting in his first year as manager), and the Mets finally got themselves Delgado. I like Carlos D. Not only is he a dangerous hitter, but he's a man of conviction, one that stays seated in the dugout if a stadium plays "God Bless America."

His reasons? He's against the war in Iraq and hates that the Navy performs military tests on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Good man.

I see only one drawback to this trade, and that's this: the Mets had to give up Mike Jacobs, whom some of you may remember from this little gem over at Titivil.

Mike had a scant 100 at-bats with the Mets, but he made himself a good first impression (well, second impression, if you include that gem from above), hitting over .300 with 11 home runs. This trade could very well work out spectacularly for both teams.

Or, if I'm feeling about the Mets how I usually do, they've just given up the future of their team for a protesting has-been.

Happy B&E Thanksgiving

Here's a fun little project, if you need a little time away from the family on this turkey day of days. It all starts off simply enough, but then it gets complicated in ways only engineers could conceive of. Enjoy!

High Octane Fuel Only

Keep this shit away from me, man.

As Long As I'm on a Harry Potter Kick...

My father was a Lutheran minister, so, as you might expect, I grew up in a religious household. But he wasn't obsessed with the evils of witchcraft. In fact, in the last few years of his life, he became quite a fan of the Harry Potter series (books and movies both).

The same can't be said for the Lutheran school I attended from 4th through 8th grades. Our religion classes included in-depth study of Martin Luther's Small Catechism. In fact, we had the whole book memorized by the time of our confirmation in the 8th grade. A typical day in religion class would be spent discussing each of the elements of Luther's explanations to, say, the Ten Commandments. For example, the Second Commandment (from Luther's Catechism):

"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God, in vain. What does this mean? We should fear and love God that we may not curse, swear, use witchcraft, lie, or deceive by His name, but call upon it in every trouble, pray, praise, and give thanks."

(As an aside, "What does this mean?" is very big to Lutherans. You can make any Lutheran, current or recovering, smile simply by saying the words, "What does this mean?" I inherited a sweatshirt from my dad that reads, "Confirmed Lutheran: What Does This Mean?" And I have to admit, it tickles me. Heh. "What does this mean?" Heh, heh...)

So on the Second Commandment, Mr. Hass's religion class would spend a day on cursing and a day on swearing. Then, somehow, the witchcraft portion of Luther's explanation warranted a week-long discussion. Magic? Witchcraft. Star charts? Witchcraft. Horoscopes? Yeah, you got it: witchcraft. I tell you, it was like The Crucible in there. Plus, there may have even been the implication that Jews were witches.

This obsessive anti-witchcraft course of study might explain my fascination with this particular review for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It's just so interesting (to me, anyway) what fundamentalists find threatening. If you don't mind spoilers, go down to the bottom of the page and check out some of the book reviews, too. I'm telling you: it's fascinating stuff. Feel free to skip the plot summaries and get right to the Positive Elements, Spiritual Content, and the rest.

I might have to subscribe to this magazine. After all, it's Shining a Light on the World of Popular Entertainment.

"What Does This Mean?" Heh, heh, heh...

Dickhead of the Week - Lord Voldemort

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Not only is this Dickhead pure evil, but his baldness and effectiveness is a personal affront to all of us here at B&E.

This self-proclaimed Lord Voldemort is responsible for countless murders, mayhem throughout the magical (and muggle) worlds, and corruption on a scale not seen for decades.

And what's with the constant child abuse? First he orphans the poor boy, then he causes the permanent disfiguration of his forehead. And like the bully he is, Dickhead Voldy keeps going back for more. He wakes the poor boy up frequently, causes massive headaches, sends snakes to attack him, kills his friends, and steals his blood for his own personal use.

Seriosly, this guy's up there with Boba Rove, Dick(head) Cheney, Tom "Send Me To Jail and Don't" DeLay, and Frisky Frist. Let's make Lord Voldemort our #1 priority for defeat in the 2006 midterms.

An Alternate Universe? Nope. Just California.

Oh, Sunnyside, my sweet, sweet Sunnyside. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. So lovely and temperate, even, that San Francisco needs one, too.

But I ask you this, you left coast liberals: was your favorite diner host to a homicide last week? I think not!

(Thanks again to blondandeffective, who demonstrates her effectiveness by being one of the only New Yorkers to read the SF Gate, the rare English-speaker who reads Le Monde, and almost certainly the only blond to read Al-Jazeera.net. Nice work, lady.)

Turkeys in the White House

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Anyone who watches "The West Wing" or pays attention to the pomp and circumstance at the real White House knows that our fair president will make the fifth pardon of his illustrious political career this Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, all five of his pardons have applied to turkeys only.

To add more fun to this year's pardon celebration, the White House is showing its wacky side, offering an online Name-the-National-Thanksgiving-Turkey vote.

Of course, even in this trivial endeavor, our current administration misses the mark. First of all, it distinctly says, "Name The National Thanksgiving Turkey." Sounds like one turkey, right? So then why do all of our options have two names? Democracy and Freedom. Blessing and Bounty. Wattle and Snood. You get the idea. Are there two turkeys here, or does the name represent the two distinct facets of the turkey's personality? We need some goddamned clarification here. Someone get that Dickhead Scott McClellan on the horn!

Even more disappointing, though, is that there's no write-in option. I was hoping to get the Commander-in-Chief to pardon a turkey named I. Lewis Libby.

Let the Trading Begin!

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When we last met Mike Cameron, he was smashing his face into Carlos Beltran. Fortunately both men are OK, although that did prove to be Mike's final game in a Mets' uniform.

And now Mike's being sent back to the scene of his face-smashing - San Diego - for some dude named Xavier Nady.

This is one of those preliminary salary-dumping trades that will allow the Mets to go ape-shit purchasing over-rated free agents well past their primes. Or, if I'm feeling more hopeful, they're building a championship team.

Manny Ramirez is widely regarded as the primary target of Mets GM Omar Minaya's wooing this off-season. Manny's a great player, grew up in Washington Heights, and is quirky as hell. More than one journalist has pondered how being back home will affect his playing.

I would like someone to explain to me how these journalistic assumptions - Manny will be hangin' with his homies, mixing up with the wrong (read: Dominican) crowd - aren't racist.

The UN, the US, and the UK

So the UN wants to inspect Gitmo, and the US tells them that they can't have unfettered access. This feels like pretty big news to me, and yet I only came upon it while reading the Guardian online from the UK. Why does that happen?

Oh, Gary... Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary...

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So I'm a big fan of Gary Glitter. Well, OK, so really I just enjoy "Rock n' Roll: Part Two" when it's played at sporting events (or performed in comedy sketches). I don't actually know anything about Gary Glitter otherwise. I mean, aside from the child porn charges that sent him to jail for four months back in 1999. Yeah, so it's fair to say that I really dislike Gary Glitter.

Well, he seems to have done it again. Perhaps we should've known that he was up to no good when his first move after prison was to emigrate to Cambodia, where, from what I understand, pretty much anything goes.

But Gary managed to get exiled from Cambodia for things government officials won't even discuss. And now he's in hiding from authorities in Vietnam.

Since perhaps I'm seeing a pattern in Gary's movements the authorities haven't, I'd suggest they look for him either in Bangkok or in some remote parish within the American Catholic Church.

New Post Update

The New York Times has a slightly more detailed report of yesterday's murder at the New Post Coffee Shop.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

My favorite greasy spoon was the cause of the helicopter and the police this morning. Phil's comments from before have been confirmed.

The New Post Coffee Shop totally rules, and I hope Tommy the short-order cook, and everyone else, is OK...

Your Bluff Has Been Called, Senator Dickhead

So come on, Ted. Time to resign, already. I'm waiting!

Why do I expect this to be yet another broken promise? What a bunch of Dickheads...

Dickhead of the Week - Whoever's Responsible for the Fucking Helicopter

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It's been hovering in my neighborhood for the past hour, and there's nothing on the local news to explain it.

It must therefore be unnecessary.

Go to hell, Dickhead. Some of us would like to be asleep still.

UPDATE: 8am and it's still there. Dickhead.

Dickhead of the Week - Follow Up II - The Return of Follow Up

The report causing former Dickhead Kenneth Y. Tomlinson to resign from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting found faults in his management, if you can believe it. The full report can be downloaded here. Good times.

Report from Queens

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A day-trip demonstrates the enormity of our fair borough, as this Sunnysider spends an hour-and-a-half traveling in one direction without ever leaving Queens. The destination? Little Neck's Queens County Farm. The last of the farms where farms once ruled, its forty-seven acres of agricultural bliss feature free range chickens wandering into engagement celebrations, really really really fat pigs napping comfortably, and children chasing the sheep in defiance of signs reading, "Please don't chase the sheep." Much of your time at the farm may be hayrack rides and heavy petting (sometimes simultaneously), but be sure to keep a wide berth around the pumpkin patch. Trespassing locals sind verboten! Yeah, buddy, that means you.

Everything's Backwards Over Here

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A special shout-out to my lovely wife, who passed her American driver's test this morning with flying colors, even with all the people driving on the wrong side of the road.

She took the test in the car pictured, although this particular stellar parking job belongs to me. Look at how I squeezed right in there with mere inches to spare. Bow down to my parallel parking prowess, mortals. Or, as they might say in Britain, "Subjugate yourselves to the throne of my reverse park."

And from your prone position at my feet, throw a little congratulations to the missus.

Illiteracy Is Key to Success

This is the second example I've heard in recent months of a book "written" by an illiterate. The first was a book by that Fantasia girl from "American Idol."

What's great about these stories is that they prove that you really don't need to learn to read and write in order to be wildly successful, not just in sports or entertainment, but in authorship as well.

So quit reading, people. If you have children, stop reading to them. Encourage them to get through school unnoticed. If they show up and don't misbehave, no one will care that they can't read. Teachers will love them anyway. Then, when they're adults, sitting on their piles of money, they can talk about their illiteracy and laaaaaaaaaugh...

GOD'S WRATH WILL BE UPON YOU... maybe

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Intelligent Design got itself a smack-down in Dover, PA when all eight school board supporters of ID got ousted in Tuesday's election. Talk about survival of the fittest!

Pat Robertson took the news quite well, and made a bold, bold prediction of God's upcoming punishment:

"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why He hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there."

Come on, Pat. What's with the "ifs," "mights," and other disclaimers? God's either gonna go kick some Dover ass, or he's not. Don't be coy, Pat. Since you've got your direct line to the Lord above, tell us how it's gonna be.

Robertson did add, however, "Assassinate Hugo Chavez, and 9/11 happened because of the faggots."

Dickhead of the Week - Continued

Add this tidbit to yesterday's Dickhead of the Week report.

(I got this one via the ever-reliable Huff Post.)

Gettin' Annoyed

I don't really enjoy watching television. So usually, I've got one or two shows that I watch, and other than that, I do my best to keep the damned idiot box turned off. I hate how I feel after watching television.

Well, this "Lost" show is really starting to get my goat. The first season was solid throughout. The writers were clearly exploring the island, not having any idea about what they would do next. It was fun.

This season, with the exception of the first, every episode has mostly sucked. But then something exciting happens at the end to get me to watch the following week anyway. Forty-five minutes of boredom and irritation, followed by ten minutes of surprise and intrigue.

I feel like I'm one episode from making "Prison Break" the only show I watch. But I've felt like that for about two months now. What's a TV-watcher to do?

Dickhead of the Week - Scott McClellan

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Scott "Go Ahead, Goyal" McClellan has found himself the subject of numerous rants on B&E, but I think this might be his first official DotW award.

It was this press briefing that did it. Initially hilarious and ultimately infuriating, Scott pulls a "Go Ahead, Goyal" less than halfway through the briefing. Fortunately, the White House press corps smells his blood and goes back for more. And there are so many Dickheaded things going on in the inner circles of this administration, every subject is touchy.

And Scott dodges just about everything. Man, what a Dickhead.

On the flip side, we have Helen Thomas, who's been covering the White House as long as most baby boomers have been alive. She fears nothing, and her hostility for Dickhead Scottie becomes more palpable every day. Go, Helen. Knock around that bitch McClellan!

Election Follow-Up

Bloomberg crushed Ferrer. And no wonder.

Corzine out-bitch-slapped Forrester in the end. Those guys are a couple of assholes. Well done, New Jersey.

Democrat Kaine beat Republican Kilgore in Virginia's governor race. So next, we can all enjoy watching Republicans sprinting away from the White House for the midterms in '06.

And Democratic Machine known as Eric Gioia beat the Green's Robyn Sklar, despite having an inordinate number of vowels in his five-letter name.

Don't Forget to Vote!

For those of us with local races, today's election day. If you're interested, keep a close eye on the New Jersey governor race and find out which asshole gazillionnaire has bitch-slapped his way to Trenton.

In another interesting race, the governorship of Virginia is currently too close to call. As I've mentioned, it's been an ugly campaign. And this election will help to answer a couple of questions as we look forward to next year's midterm elections: 1) Are the Democrats viable in the south? 2) How far, if at all, will congressional Republicans have to remove themselves from Bush's image in order to get re-elected?

Meanwhile, here in New York, we've got a mayoral race pitting an incredibly popular, enormously wealthy Republican (Mike Bloomberg) against an uninspired, entitled Democrat (Fernando Ferrer). I've heard rumors that Bloomberg donated something like $7 million to the Bush campaign and was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing the Republican National Convention to our fine city. Are these things forgivable? On the other hand I'm still waiting for Ferrer to say something -- anything -- that convinces me he'd actually be a good mayor. It's election day and I still wait. Most polls have Bloomberg beating Ferrer by more than 30 percentage points. So I'm probably gonna throw my vote away and give it to the Working Families Party candidate, whoever the hell he/she is.

But proving once again that I live in the greatest neighborhood in New York, our city council race has got Democratic incumbent Eric Gioia facing Green Party candidate Robyn Sklar. That's right: no Republican at all. Eric "Where There's a Camera There's A" Gioia has probably clinched his re-election. But I've seen Robyn out working the streets, and my favorite greasy spoon sports her sign, so I think I'm gonna "Vote Green, Not Machine," just like she suggests.

Another Myth Debunked

Of course, those of us who grew up in the midwest have known this our whole lives...

Dickhead of the Week - Follow Up

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Our friend over at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is no longer at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. After an investigation into his Dickheaded activities, a report is about to be issued, and Kenny-boy has resigned, while simultaneously denying all allegations in the report, which, by the way, hasn't even been released yet. Hm...

Another friend of Boba Rove down.

For an international point-of-view, not to mention a glimpse into just how complicated all this crap truly is, try this little article here.

More On (Moron?) Geniuses

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While I was waiting for my turn at the Apple Store, there was a really pissy dude having trouble with an optical drive that had recently been replaced by a Genius. He was having problems ripping (as opposed to burning) DVDs. He attributed the problem to the optical drive, while the Genius put the blame on his ripping software. He's coming back with some of his bum DVD's to prove his point.

After he left, though, the Genius brought up the issue with the Managing Genius. Managing Genius said that they can't help him because ripping DVDs is illegal. It took several members of her staff to insist that ripping DVDs was legal if you ripped, say, home movies.

But they still seemed to be in some sort of legal pickle.

I don't really understand the difference between "burning" and "ripping," but let's face it -- most burning OR ripping is probably used to make illegal copies of copyrighted material. To test his drive, Managing Genius said, they would need to burn something illegally. (It's possible she's wrong about this, seeing as earlier she insisted that ALL ripping is illegal.) The final end-all question thrown out by the Managing Genius for any other Genius to answer:

"What if he's a spy from, like, Sony or something?"

Chavez v. Bushie

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The left-wing president of oil-rich Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has insisted for some time that the U.S. government has been trying to bump him off. That Pat Robertson called for his assassination not so long ago only fueled the man's fire against President Bush, whom he calls "Mr. Danger."

So at the free trade talks in Argentina, Bushie's trying to pretend that Hugo doesn't exist. Hugo, meanwhile, continues to jab and taunt.

With much oil and about eight refineries not damaged at all by Katrina, Hugo offers ten percent of its total output on the cheap to schools and non-profits in poor communities. Needless to say, this has been incredibly popular in the Bronx.

Additionally, what this means is that there's a way to buy oil and gasoline without supporting Bush himself. Get your gas at Citgo, a major U.S. distributor of Venezuelan oil. I like the one one Queens Boulevard. They're not everywhere, but I hope you can find one near you.

The Geniuses' Geniuses

I was so happy to see my computer this morning when I went to pick it up at the Apple Store. The Geniuses got it back from their Geniuses at the repair shop. I lost no data and even sent an email.

Then, when I closed the top to pack it up, the thing didn't go to sleep. Naturally, I brought this to the Genius's attention. He gave a quiet little, "Oh, boy..."

While it's probably nothing, it might also be an indication of a larger problem. For five happy minutes I had my computer in my hands. Now it's on its way back to the Geniuses' Geniuses, and hopefully when they return it, it'll be glitch-free.

So far, the Genius Bar at the Apple Store is simply lowering the genius bar.

Oh, For the Love Of...

The Democrats seems to be taking a new slogan for a test drive: "Together, America Can Do Better."

Excuse me? To whom does "together" refer? America is singular. The slogan doesn't make any sense.

I'm thinking about all the high-level Democrats that must've read and approved this slogan, and man, oh, manischewitz, we are in some real fucking trouble.

GET IT TOGETHER, PEOPLE!

The Sentence

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Some of you may have heard the story of my high school buddy that got nailed trafficking 150 pounds of weed in his car trunk. In a particular twist (one you'd never believe in a movie), he just happened to get busted driving through his/our home town.

Well, after two-and-a-half years of continuances and bargaining, he finally pleaded guilty, threw himself upon the mercy of the court, and got himself twelve months of probation and a $1,000 fine.

So that's a bullet dodged. And I sure hope next time he's able to make it all the way to my apartment...

OK, So Now What?

Harry Reid closed the Senate yesterday to hash out a compromise to investigate the pre-war intelligence (and its distortion, one would hope). Harry is proving himself to be occasionally bold, but I'm still skeptical that proper follow-up will take place. The Democrats aren't famous for their stick-to-itiveness.

David Sirota has a few important follow-up questions I hope the Democrats take to heart. And from there, Elizabeth de la Vega lays out a simple legal explanation defining the conspiracy perpetrated by the White House. So let's widen Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation, Department of Justice. Make some shit happen, heh?

Why is it that I still fear the Democrats are totally gonna fuck this up?

Dickhead of the Week - Dick Cheney

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Initially, I was going to go with the obvious choice and give this week's award to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, since the man sometimes known as the vice president's conscience got himself indicted.

But then I was all, "Wait a minute. How big a Dickhead must this Dick(head) Cheney be if even his conscience is getting indicted?"

Really, they were a team. I don't believe for a second that these two men didn't share freakin' everything with one another.

And since loyalty equals integrity in this administration, Libby's gonna take his licks, do his time, get rewarded with some cushy seven-figure private sector job, and Cheney will the world's most obvious criminal without a criminal record. Yes, even more obvious than O.J.

So while that plays out down the road so clearly in my mind, I'll take what little satisfaction my bleeding heart can get, and go right to the name-calling. Mr. Vice President, sir, you are a douchebag, you are a scumsucker, and by God you are a Dickhead.