Don't miss T.D. Allman in Rolling Stone writing on the curse of Dick Cheney. He details how Cheney's career has been marred by one disaster after another --maybe Bush will be his next failure.

In related news, Vice President Dick Cheney warned Tuesday that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for terrorism. Who can respond to such a dumb assertion? Fafnir of Fafblog can. Read his account of his adventure when Tom Ridge came to his house to seize his absentee ballot because it might aid and abet a terrorist attack on the U.S.

Official Homeland Security Department ballot-sniffin dogs sniff my apartment an find my absentee ballot. "Aha!" says Tom Ridge. "Fafnir, by the authority placed in me by the Government and Jesus and many other large things, I'm placing you under arrest!"
"Oh no!" says me. "What for?"
"For plotting to vote for John Kerry!" says Tom Ridge. "As Vice President Cheney noted today, if John Kerry gets elected in November, 'we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.' That means the election of John Kerry is the election of another terrorist attack. That means by voting for John Kerry you've participated in a terrorist conspiracy to attack the United States of America!"

[links via Avedon Carol at Sideshow.]