Burnt Orange Report

A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations

By Jim Dallas

Charles Pierce on Bush's war booty:

Not long ago, it was revealed that the president of the United States had taken as a souvenir the pistol found on Saddam Hussein when American forces pulled him, blinking and bearded, out of the earth. It was reported further that the president kept the confiscated firearm in the Oval Office. I became concerned.

In the first place, this is a president that has in the past been overpowered by, in order, a pretzel, a Segway scooter, and a bicycle. (Note that I do not include here the fact that he is also regularly overpowered by the facts, by the office of the vice president, and by the rules of English grammar. These are abstract things, and it is as unfair to criticize him for being wrestled to the ground by abstract concepts as it would be dumb to, say, launch a "war" against one.) Anyway, there seemed to be trouble brewing here with tangible, mechanical objects.