Cheney's disastrous hunting trips

What is it about Dick Cheney and hunting trips?

In December of 2003, he was seen participating in a canned hunt, a despicable activity in which animals are trapped and regularly fed so that they will wander out and become easy targets for "sportsmen." Canned hunts are for "hunters" who cannot hunt and who do not care what kind of cruelty is involved as long as they "bag" their game. Mind you, I am not fond of hunting in any form, but canned hunting is beyond the beyond.

Then there was the alleged vice president's famous Louisiana hunting trip he made with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. That trip happened to take place shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to deliberate Cheney's appeal in the suits filed over his handling of the Bush administration's energy task force.

Now Cheney has gone and shot his friend, who is in the hospital with wounds to his neck, shoulder, and chest.

Cheney is, of course, a darling of the NRA. Here he is with some NRA bigshots in a photo that I can't help but call "Nerds with Gun." And here, just to make this report complete, is Cheney's scheme for avoiding picking up a gun to fight in Vietnam. Perhaps that was a good thing.