Thursday, February 16, 2006

Fellini's 7 1/2 According to a CNN reporter, Cheney shot Harry Whittington with "a 7 1/2 inch birdshot." I don't know much about shooting, but it seems to me that if Whittington had been shot with a projectile that large, he wouldn't be giving any press conferences. A bit of research turned up the correct dimensions of the birdshot: Cheney was using No. 7½ shot from a 28-gauge shotgun. Shotgun pellets typically are made of steel or lead; the pellets in No. 7½ shot are just under one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Birdshot could be the past tense of birdshit, just as the past tense of all the bullshit being issued from Cheney could be bullshot. 9:46:05 PM    comment []