Beer and Guns

What a combination!

I still don't think this is as big a story as, say, Congress abdicating its own responsibility and turning the Presidency into a monarchy, but it's certainly selling on a metaphoric level. And the press is buying into it because it has that whiff of tabloid sensationalism so attractive to the infotainment culture.

But clearly, we now have a story about a guy who drank while on medication, then a couple hours later went out in a field hunting without a license, shot a guy in the face, then tried to cover it up for 14 hours, even sending away a Sheriff's deputy after making an appointment to see him the next morning.

That's the kind of thing that would get your ass in jail if you weren't rich, famous, or both. Cheney's making Halle Berry look like an upstanding citizen.