Dick Cheney, Baby Eater

Frontline is back with a fresh crop of depressing documentaries. Michael Kirk, who does a fantastic job showing just how the current administration has gone about doing so many naughty things, this week turned his lens on Dick Cheney. And I must say that, in between knitting a hat to quell my anxiety, I giggled, just a little.

And that is because Mr. Michael Kirk is a man who gets a wee bit too theatrical at times. Cower before the evil ministrations of Dick Cheney's nasty lawyer coconspirator! Shudder as you read the gobbledygook snuck into the Congressional Record -- and during the Christmas holidays, no less!

Snicker as you imagine the narrator, whose voice has been your companion on many a Tuesday night, saying this: "Dick Cheney chose not to comment for this story. But we have this interview with Cheney, regarding the day a sweet little baby came crawling into his office at Halliburton. That baby was trailed by a golden retriever puppy with only three legs being walked by a hooker with a heart of gold...within 30 minutes, Dick Cheney had eaten the baby, run over the puppy with his car, and turned the hooker's heart from gold to inky black...bwah ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa!"