Lesbians and Tigers and Bears, Oh My

Here's a Mary Cheney story that didn't make it into her new autobiography . From Muckraked :

[In 1989] Mary had just been rejected for a job as a seasonal park ranger with the park's Youth Conservation Corps, receiving a notice in the mail that she "wasn't qualified" for the post. (Only 22 percent of the 18,000 applicants are accepted every year.)

We find it hard to believe that Mary Cheney was deemed "unqualified" for a job that involves "bush clearing." But hey, what do we know...

So Lynne, who chaired the National Endowment for the Humanities while her husband Dick served as the first President Bush's defense secretary, called up Robert Barbee, the superintendent of Yellowstone.

"After the conversation, officials at Yellowstone decided to take another look at her application," reported the Washington Post at the time. Mary got the job, getting paid $6.74 an hour.

We're sorry. We know we're supposed to be incensed over the corruption/nepotism reflected in this episode. But we just can't get that excited about Mary using connections so she could pick up trash from campgrounds and replenish firewood. For less than $7 an hour. (Sure, it was 1989; but still, that's not i-banker money.)

We'd like Lynne Cheney to intercede on our behalf, so we can avoid being shipped off to Yellowstone. The Great Outdoors is nothing but allergies and insect bites. And having to go to the bathroom in the woods.

Lesbians have a strange sense of fun.

 How Lynne Cheney Pulled A Few Strings For Mary [Muckraked]