The last insult?

With each damaging gasp of Bush's dying presidency, I keep thinking it will be the last assault, but, no, there seems to be no end. A last-minute insult to science, dignity and medicine is Bush's so-called Conscience Rules, which allows health care providers to impose their personal beliefs on the people they are supposed to serve.

In a way, it is a fitting end to a presidency that has always looked for new ways to theocratize this country. It's sickingly exciting to sit and wonder what will be next. Just because he's a lame duck, doesn't mean that he can't be lamer.

Finally, Bush did something right...sorta

Today, he rather deftly and calmly ducked two pairs of shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist and managed to look pretty good doing it.

Let me see, the Iraqi population is about 27.5 million. Times two that would make about 55 million potential footwear missiles. I'm just wondering how many of those deserved shoe projectiles he could handle so adroitly.

Of course, to me, his remark: "So what if a guy threw his shoe at me?" really shows that he doesn't understand the thrower's grief and frustration demonstrated by the words that went with that shoe: ""This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."