Lonesome George

I can't hate this guy.
He's a putz, but I think he may, way deep down - down where a few synapses may still be firing - realize what a bloody balls-up he's leaving behind.
Off into the sunset G.
The classy thing to do would be to forsake his pension and his lifetime of secret service protection for the good of a bankrupt nation, but that ain't gonna happen.
Even nicer would be for him to experience a complete psychotic break (Hell, he's taken every other kind of break over these past eight years.) where the long repressed rage at Dick Cheney's dogged insistence on maintaining a body temperature takes over.
He could then off him some spectacular and bloody manner on national TV.
THAT would make his administration memorable, and history would damn sure judge him less harshly.
I picked this pic out of our local rag for two reasons:
One, he's got that puppy-who-just-peed-on-the-carpet expression that we've been seeing so much of these past months.
Also, this picture answers a question that's been nagging me for years.
"Does a President shave himself?"
I think we've got a rock-solid "YES", at least for our boy here.
Check out those chin whiskers. Click if you have to.
No, on-the-payroll, White House barber would have let an abomination like this leave his shop.
Please understand; I'm not dissing W's sartorial standards. Back when I engaged in the ultimately self-defeating effort of shaving, that was a little patch of brush that was always easy to overlook.
Besides, the departing leader of the most crippled, dysfunctional world power since the fall of the USSR needs little less that grooming tips from a slob like me.
But, George... seriously now...
No shit. Keep plugging away. You'll find your niche. I did and you can't be any more fucked-up than me.
So, farewell and adieu.
Write when you get work.
Work you're good at.
I'm too depressed for anything else.

THIS JUST IN...
Cheney's going to be in a wheelchair for the event.
C'mon, George.
Chop-chop. Memorable presidency... remember.
He ain't gonna make it any easier.
Fish in a barrel.