News that the 71 year-old Dick Cheney has received a heart transplant practically begs for incivility, or at least snark of all kinds. I want to use a little self-restraint. The only thing I’m willing to say publicly about this is that they really ought to have had a box to check on organ donor cards that let us opt out of donating to people who favor torturing people and starting wars on false pretenses. Someone, after all, donated their heart to this man. I know that civility calls for treating our ex-presidents and vice-presidents with perhaps a little more respect than they’ve actually earned, but some of us see Dick Cheney as a straight-up war criminal in the same general category as Slobodan Milošević. I know I feel that way, and it’s part of what motivated me to start this blog.
That said, I hope his transplant is successful and he recovers. I’m just glad he didn’t get my heart…for a couple of reasons.