By now everyone must have heard about Dick Cheney having shot his hunting companion. Since everyone involved seems to have lived through the experience, and is expected to continue to,* it seems fair game to joke about.
Some have made reference to lawyers apparently being in season. Mine might be that this is a strange way to go about tort reform.
I also liked Eric Muller's observation that if, as has been asserted, getting shot while hunting is a routine accident, what has the Vice President been doing all this time by putting himself in harm's way? (And what would the result have been if the shooter and the victim had been the other way around, as apparently is so likely to happen?)
But what's really funny to me is the hospital's listing of the victim's condition as "very stable."
When I was an intern at a news station I often had to call hospitals to get updates on the condition of people who were the subject of the stories we were going to run. I was carefully reminded, "Don't just accept it when they say a victim is stable. Remember, 'dead' is very stable."
Hence my snickering when I read that.
* (on edit 2/14) Um, I think...
Comments (4)
Since it won't undermine our moot court argument, I'll concede this post.
Posted by Mike | February 13, 2006 7:05 PM
Posted on February 13, 2006 19:05
SSH! Don't give away our strategy!
Posted by Cathy | February 14, 2006 5:07 AM
Posted on February 14, 2006 05:07
Good point. I'll concede that.
Posted by Mike | February 14, 2006 7:07 AM
Posted on February 14, 2006 07:07
Augh!!!! Stop it!!!
(BTW, have you noticed how this is post 666? See the permalink URL. Not that there's any significance to this, of course...)
Posted by Cathy | February 14, 2006 11:28 AM
Posted on February 14, 2006 11:28