I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to none other than Dick Cheney, pled "not guilty" today to charges of perjury, lying, misleading, and being a bad nasty man. (It always strikes me as particularly interesting that we plead "not guilty" to things as opposed to just pleading "innocent." Says something about our culture, thinks I.) Scooter, the only person charged thus far in the Valerie Plame Affair (by John LeCarre) has hired new lawyers, and is fighting this thing tooth and nail. If he's found guilty, he could get as much as 30 years in jail, unless he rolls over on his former boss.
But that's not what I come here to write about tonight. Tonight, I think it's important to pay proper attention to one of the great American sideshows that always seem to rear their purple, swollen, engorged heads at these times of crisis. In the grand tradition of repressed fucking Republican conservative tightasses, Scooter wrote a book back in 1996 called "The Apprentice." It does not feature Donald Trump. It does, on the other hand, feature deer fucking, homoeroticism, girls drawing on naked girls, pissing, shitting, bear rape (that's by a bear, not of a bear, an important distinction), children in bondage, betrayal, awkward fucking (duh) and pendulous breasts. Wow. I gotta read this piece of garbage. Why isn't this bigger news? Why isn't it grounds for dismissal from the ultra-conservative god squad's right wing to write smut? And if you're going to write smut, write good smut - the jury's still out on that one, too. Personally, I'm guessing this guy's no Anais Nin. Shit, I bet he's not even Danielle Steele.
Anyway, the sideshow's always way more interesting than the center ring, so I thought you all should know. I think we all know now who we're really dealing with in the GOP. Goofy Ole Perverts, yeah. Thanks to PopBitch for turning me onto this one.