Cloven Hooves & Flying Monkeys...

This is the best take on Cheney I've seen all day, and believe me, I've been looking. Wanted to get it posted before the debate. By Jon Carroll of the Ess Eff Chronicle.

It's the moment we've all been waiting for. This evening, for the first time, we may get an answer to the vital question: Dick Cheney, double- dealing plutocrat or incarnation of evil?

On the other hand, if Cheney is joined onstage by a host of evil flying monkeys and other demons, polytheism is still very much in play. Indeed, the small groups of Democrats who do worship evil flying monkeys would see the manifestation as a gesture to their side, and flock to the polls in higher- than-usual numbers.

The named spokesman insisted that his name not be used. "People get your name, they write it on a piece of paper and put it inside a wax figure and set fire to the figure -- well, you just don't want that to happen," adding that "Dick Cheney" is not the vice president's real name.

Too mucking futch. Or is it S....