Excrement or End of Days?

What Bush wrote Miers in one of their many mutual birthday greetings.

WonkCentral has been inundated with e-mails asking what the hell this can mean. Is she going to be hurling feces at Ted Kennedy during her confirmation hearing? Because if she’s going to be hurling feces at Ted Kennedy during her confirmation hearing, we happy, we few of the blogosphere might just have to rethink this whole milquetoast-toadying-nonentity-what-the-fuck nomination trope…

Another theory: We all know Dubya suffers from what can charitably be described as a severe case of verbal dyslexia. We also know that spelling mistakes were really more of Dad’s running-mate’s bag. But what if the president — back in his sluicier gubernatorial days — simply left out the “e” and the “h” in this post script, in a mad pursuit of making what would soon prove to be a more characteristic observation?

Main Entry: es·cha·tol·o·gy
Pronunciation: “es-k&-‘tä-l&-jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -gies
Etymology: Greek eschatos last, farthest
1 : a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind
2 : a belief concerning death, the end of the world, or the ultimate destiny of mankind; specifically : any of various Christian doctrines concerning the Second Coming, the resurrection of the dead, or the Last Judgment

The mouth froths, the poor girl’s head starts spinning around during Anti-Defamation League award acceptance dinners. Next thing you know, out comes: “And behold there was a great hurricane, and the robes became as black as sackcloth, and the Base became as blood. And the Lowrys boiled, and the Zogby fell. Judgment Day.” —MICHAEL WEISS

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