I swear that if you asked Dick Cheney to kiss a baby, he'd bite its lip. That none of us could be surprised by any evil he might commit is the only reason I can conceive that news that the Vice President of the United States shot his buddy in the face with a shotgun isn't a bigger story.

Though I don't think any of us could think less of Dick, it's nice to see the Bush semiotics squad has leapt to his defense anyway. The article, for example, describes Cheney's victim as "being hit" or "peppered" with "several pellets." This morning, I heard it said that the man was "sprayed." Now I'm no munitions expert, but my understanding of how shotguns work is that a small explosion within the gun propels whatever projectiles are contained within the shell, usually lots of tiny metal balls called shot, at the target.

When somebody gets in the way of a discharging weapon at Jayson Williams' house, they're "struck" with a "shotgun blast." When it happens during the Vice President's hunting excursion, they're "peppered" with "several pellets."



Guess who's the criminal?

Analogcabin @ 9:40 PM
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