After you've been shown more than once in caricatures that are not too far of as Bush's dog on a short leash and then you've been unceremoniously ejected from the office with no tears shed -- why would you then want to face still more humiliation? Is it that politicians don't really get it or is it that they sort of get addicted to public humiliation? Will they do anything to be derided at -- as long as they can get some press?

Now Doctors are terrorists. In a way it is better than the other young and unoccupied yahoos that general try to be terrorists. With doctors working in the west -- utter incompetence is guaranteed. They have only a mildly better chance of succeeding at terrorism than the deranged half-wit the "shoe bomber."

Just when you think this administration couldn't get any worse it just does -- proving the theory that there isn't really any limit to 'bad' but only to good. Bush's pardon of Libby would have been less sad if the only true candidate (Hillary) for president in the upcoming elections wasn't herself completely smeared in horribly wrong presidential pardons.

This story actually brings forth one of my favorite moral fables: Karn vs. Vibhishan.

Karn is an important, powerful and highly regarded character in Mahabharat who chooses loyalty over dharm (righteous path) and Vibhishan is an important, weak and largely forgotten character in Ramayan who chooses dharm over loyalty. Moral of the story is that being disloyal is generally viewed as being more unethical than supporting evil.

Does this apply to Bush? He is Karn? Would we have liked him better had he been Vibhishan?

I think the answer in this case is pretty simple: this does not apply to this tale because both Karn and Vibhishan are not the drivers of evil and Bush is. Their choices are merely to be loyal or to be evil. Bush's choices are different: Whether to be loyal or disloyal. Bush chose loyalty. In some sense this actually makes him a better man than had he let Libby take the hard fall for what is essentially his doing.

A sure sign of going old? The drop in the number of wishes you get on your birthday.