The Zong

In a couple of years, when we might be rinsing the blood off our country’s hands and swigging scotch to get the bad taste of the Bush presidency out of our mouths, a lot of people are gonna say “That stupid shithead didn’t do anything right while he was president!”

I probably won’t disagree, but I’ll point out that his presidency did give rise to this photograph:

I mean, this picture is always funny, and every newspaper covering the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed developments this week is running this picture along with their articles. They’ll probably run it again when they hang the ugly bastard, and he will forever be remembered as Al Qaeda’s grumpy little trooper.

You’d think that part of training to become a martyr should include sacrificing a little night time comfort so that if the infidels catch you, you don’t look like a hung-over Ron Jeremy for the photographers.

- M.G.