So the vice president shot a man in the face this weekend. They were quail-hunting together, and the veep merely grazed him.

Whew. Can you imagine the conspiracy theories that the lunatics would be cranking out today if the guy had been killed? That the deceased would have Known Too Much would be unquestioned. Cheney would have been thought to have Said Too Much during the trip and therefore Had to Act. Or Cheney and the the Bush administration Set Him Up to keep him from Blowing the Whistle on the whole Zionism/Big Oil/Chemtrails/Fluoride/Neo-Con/Bigfoot/Whatever global-domination scheme.

I haven’t the capacity to envision all the nutty avenues the conspiracy theories would take. But I can imagine Oliver Stone tripping over himself to produce a movie about the guy and still running smack-flab into Michael Moore on the way.