SCOOTER SKATES!!!

Well, I just have to comment on the state of the world when Scooter Libby gets a walk on Boardwalk and poor Paris had to sit her time out in the hoosegow. Here we are, with a guy who has been convicted of leaking top secret information, and he gets pardoned - while Missy Hilton had to go to the clink not once but TWICE...and then to face the indignity of all that Paparazzi without a visit from her make-up artist. Justice is truly blind.

But then, the whole subject of secrecy seems to have taken on a new life in DC - last week it was reports of Dick Cheney's own Special "SECRET" stamp which he insisted on having emblazoned on all kinds of documents, including press statements - so obviously the term "Top Secret" has a much lesser meaning these days than it may have had once upon a time. Indeed, to have a secret is to have something to share, as might be attested to by school-kids for generations. apparently it was we Baby-Boomers who got it all wrong, wrapping the term up in a bundle of red-tape, only appropriate for a bunch of kids who spent their formative years learning about the proper way to cover our heads in aluminum foil to deter the effects of radiation and to spend our days under our school-desks to avert the detrimental onslaught caused by the dropping of an Atomic Bomb aimed at taking out the local Cartoon-Riddled Television Station. Of course that was the era when women would coif their hair into massive cones protected by a gallon of spray shellac, and men would coat their hair in Red-Rose Brilliantine so it probably was needless for adults to learn the duck-and-cover routine, which is why it fell off the curriculum after the sixth grade.

I digress.

So we have learned that Dick Cheney occupies an office, but answers not to any of the three branches of our government. He has a man-sized safe in his office. He has the heads of various friends he has shot in the face mounted on his wall. (Okay I exaggerate there - he only mounts the ones that died). He gleefully stamps documents that have no particular priority or importance with his own "Secret Stuff" stamp. And so now we learn that the term Secret itself has little bearing on National Security. Thus, to keep the Scoot on ice would be a travesty of justice. The Courts got it wrong, and it is for our fearless leader to set it all to rights.

Miss Hilton on the other hand did ignore her probation. She was bad. It was all too obvious that she needed to spend time cloistered away to consider her sins. I am sure it worked, and that she will be clothing the homeless in India next week. A lesson in sobriety and charity is no doubt the outcome of her incarceration. Well, at least the homeless will be able to get some make-up and shopping tips.

I am so happy to see that the US has its priorities back on track. I have forgotten to check in a while - how is that fence project on the Mexico border going?