Okay, He's Stopped Even Trying...

Pres. George W. Bush -- in an apparent effort to demonstrate his absolute contempt of democracy -- has awarded the Prsidential Citizen's Medal to Chuck Colson. That's right. You read that correctly. Nixon's enforcer just received the second highest civilian medal. The man who tried to cover up Watergate. The man who suggested burning the Brookings Institute and stealing records during the confusion. That guy just received the second highest civilian honor. Lenny Bruce's proclamation of the importance of the first amendment never seemed less hypothetical.