The premise is this. A young girl is out in the swamps and seems somehow responsible for a series of plagues as in Biblical plagues--swarms of locusts, frogs, water turns to blood, etc.

A woman is dispatched to investigate the matter. She finds the young girl's mother. The mother asks the woman, "Are you here to kill my daughter?"

The investigator replies in a very apologetic voice, "Oh no, I would never do that."

And the mother asks, almost increduously, "Why not?"

Draw your own conclusions.

I did inhale.

Can't say I have any more sympathy for Snow than I would for anyone else who flacks for torture. Which is to say: as much as he gets for being (barely) human.

to make the observation that the mass detected up his ass is undoubtedly his own head - I hope the doctors give him a clean bill of health.

Although I'll welcome his weeks of absence.

Every White House press secretary I've ever seen acted precisely the same way: Snow's nuts are in a vise, and one errant syllable nets a quarter turn clockwise by his bosses.

Besides despising him, in a semi-perverse way I feel sorry for him....for about half a second. Anmyone who takes that job deserves what he or she gets. We, in turn, should not be surprised at all.

At his previous job he was noted as the only person who mastered the Snow job.
Why do you think he was hired.
He has now mastered the political two-step.

_{repressive governments mix administrative clumsiness & inefficiency with authoritarian tendencies.}