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The Further Adventures of Bat Boy, half-bat, half-boy

This week's episode has Bat Boy responsible for finding Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole. Several thoughts collided in sequence, like geese landing on ice -- is the straight story (4th ID G2 targets ad-Dawr outhouse pit-toilet and bingo) really any more credible than Bat Boy? The NYTimes ran a Kurds-get-Way story, Syria and Turkey are suddenly bent out of shape about ... their eligibility for commodity cheese maybe (nah, too NDN a reference), and then all the stories on all the tabloids seemed to speak at once. In tongues naturally.

It was a moment of epiphany, there at the checkout asile was Eric Alterman's answer to the media captive to party, a parallel political culture that answers Bush/Rove/Chenny/Ridge/Ashcroft "press opportunities" with news of equal weight and import -- Belgium destroyed by meteor, Bush sends 3,000 fire hydrants for the relief of sled dogs in the frozen north, al Qaeda breeds killer mosquitos. And Bat Boy. Bat Boy le hero. Our problem is that we think too much and laugh too little. Is Nedra actually worth all the froth and bother? Is she better than the Epic of Bat Boy?

In the last cycle Bat Boy endorsed Al Gore. If Trippi had a sense of humor he'd post a "Bat" for Bat Boy to endorse, or stage the musical, with his client doing a cameo as ... a uniformed police officer. The checkout asile is not to be missed.

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