Good to hear that the gentleman who was on the receiving end of Dick Cheney's shotgun blast is doing better. I frankly don't understand the appeal of "hunting" as he and the Veep practice it…and I put that in quotes because a friend of mine would have wanted it that way. He's a championship hunter with a whole trophy room into which I will not go because I can't stand to see all those mounted animal heads. On the phone the other day, he said (approximately), "What these guys were doing was not hunting. Hunting requires some skill and stamina and in some cases, a little personal risk. These guys were at a club where they arrange it so anyone can kill some birds and pretend it's hunting."
Either way, I don't see why anyone would enjoy it…but then, I never figured out why people enjoyed the original Star Trek, either. So I'm content that there are just some things in this world that thrill others without thrilling me, which is fine. We don't all have to love everything the same way and to the same degree.
A lot of websites seem to be getting all Grassy Knoll on us with theories as to why there have been the odd delays in announcing the news and in Cheney making any sort of public statement of regret. I admit it's odd but in these situations, the simplest explanation is the most likely. It may just be taking a long time for someone to teach Dick Cheney how to utter the words, "I did something wrong." This whole administration has had a bad tendency to confuse never admitting errors with always being right. They won't even admit that they might have been wrong to act on faulty intelligence. It's kinda like, "Whatever we did was correct, even if we didn't know what we were doing at the time." One presumes he will not take that approach in his interview on Fox News later today.