You, Too, Can Shoot a 78-Year-Old Man The news at Harvard has been keeping me so busy, I've barely had time to make fun of Dick Cheney. (Apparently others have filled the gap.)

But I do like this animated hunting game in which the player (you!) gets a lesson in how not to hunt quail....

I also like this Humane Society piece about "canned hunting," in which hundreds of farm-bred birds are released so macho men like Dick Cheney can kill them. (Well, try to kill them.)

I'm not a hunter, but this practice—which makes it virtually impossible to miss the birds, unless, of course, you shoot a 78-year-old man in the face—seems less than challenging. Less than macho. Why, it's more gay than the gay cowboys from Brokeback Mountain—who actually are quite macho—if you know what I mean.

And given that there's really not much skill involved—basically, all you have to do is avoid shooting a 78-year-old man in the face—the fact that Cheney does this all the time raises the disturbing suggestion that the vice-president likes to shoot overfed, confused animals for pleasure....which is a little sick, don't you think?  ¶ 8:25 AM