I'm stressed out these days because of my job so maybe it's a sign of the times when I get irritated at the press for making such a big deal out of Cheney's shooting a fellow hunter. I am a ardent liberal as most of you know, but I think it's ridiculous that a big play-up has been made of the shooting. It was an accident, for cripes' sake, and there were no serious injuries (thank goodness!) It's my impression that the guy who got shot didn't yell out a warning or anything, so the blame is not entirely Cheney's. In fact, the only really big deal I can see about the whole thing is that Cheney didn't have a valid hunting license, and it seems to me that that'd have been a staffer's oversight. I mean, I can't see Dick Cheney himself taking the time to get a new license, can you? He's got a staff to check on things like that. Of course, it could be that I'm too easily irritated these days! Kat