Accidents will happen…

Cross-posted to Sisyphus Shrugged, while Julia continues hiatusing.
While sitting here amidst New York’s second largest snow fall ever of 22.8 inches, and pondering going back out to shovel, I was suddenly alerted to the fact that the Vice-President of the United States shot a man.
My dreams of reading about Dick Cheney having challenged Senator Pat Leahy to a duel a la Burr and Hamilton were dashed, when I saw that, in fact, it was a hapless 78 year old political crony and campaign giver, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington, who was, in fact, shot while hunting with Dick Cheney. We always suspected that activity was probably really dangerous in any event…
Thankfully for all, Whittington is apparently o.k. He was hit with bird shot while hunting quail (another vice-presidential reference sneaks in here!) Cheney was most apologetic, what with Whittington being a loyal friend, hunting buddy, Republican and campaign contributor and all…
Obviously, Cheney was too shaken up by the whole incident (one wonders how his ticker will take this kind of excitement) to figure out a way to express that Democrats were actually responsible for it.
Of course, the day is young…