The question is, is he really dead?

In a world where one company, with an admitted bias, is set to control most of the paperless voting machines in the next and all future elections, a world where O. J. Simpson and Michael Jackson roam free, a world where the Most Unpopular President in History* hasn't been impeached for his numerous constitution stompings/treasonous acts, should we even believe that Ken Lay is dead? What would it take to sequester his Bush-donating felonious ass to keep his mouth from running (or just to keep a pal out of the pokey)? It's certainly possible that he was taken to a private deposition of some sort and the rest of what happened is all imaginary, the real Lay being transported to Cheney's Undisclosed Location to subsist on catered meals and Cuban cigars for his remaining days. Air America radio pundit Randi Rhodes tastelessly suggested Big Dub may have 'arranged' the death, for the silence and such, but I think his not actually being dead is more plausible. Hey, in a world where 86% of Americans believe there was government collusion on 9/11, I among them, just about anything is possible.


*Nixon played the Al Gore role in 1960, although he did not contest the murky results, but he was by all accounts legitimately elected by a wide margin and went on to win 49 states (!) in his re-election. Bush the Younger has never been popular, not even at summer camp, with those supple yet firm pursing lips of his.