07/02/2003 Entry: "His Finger Was On The Other Button."

While some may suggest that the shock of the Supreme Court Sodomy decision brought about the passing of Strom Thurmond (or perhaps merely now torments him eternally,) the Conspiracy Lobe of my brain ticked onto this thought: maybe the conservative Powers That Be decided they needed a big story to counter the ruling, hoping that people might not notice if something big happened—not big enough to make a difference politically, but a tragedy the public could empathize with. So somebody switched Strom off.

I'll bet Dick Cheney would have had to change his trousers after he heard that one.