And by God, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good

(How sweet would it be to get capped by the VP? Remember this man's name, because he will live in Trivial Pursuit infamy)

Vice President Dick Cheney shot his friend, Harry Whittington while hunting quails in Texas. The 78 year old Texas lawyer was airlifted to a Corpus Christi hospital where he is listed in stable condition. The owner of the ranch where the incident took place had the following amazing description of the accident:

"It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that. Fortunately, the Vice President has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."

It doesn't take a genius to know that geriatrics and guns are a dangerous combination. It will be interesting to see how this story develops. I can't wait to see what the Larouche freaks are going to do with this story. They told me last week that Cheney eats babies, so I can't imagine what they will do now that he's on record for actually busting a cap in an old man's ass. If you're not familiar with the Larouche freaks, consider yourself lucky (check out the pamphlet comparing Cheney to Hitler).