Sloughing Off

You may have heard about the facial transplant that just took place. I don't remember which newspaper—NYT, probably—I read about it in most recently, but they cited one of the dangers as transplant rejection, meaning that the skin would slough off.

Just think about that.

Disgusting in an entirely different way is this news story about how Bush slaughtered some Iowan soldier's quotes about the war to twist it to his devious, world-conquering purposes inside the speechwriting room of his secret subterranean sand-tunneling anti-Figaroan castle.