Saturday, February 18, 2006

I could hardly believe that Dick Cheney took my advice! And he did more than just blog about the incident. No more than 12 hours after I wrote about it, he came out on Fox News (that fair and balanced network) and came clean on what had happened with the shooting accident. And it seems to have helped his cause. He got a standing ovation in his home state of Wyoming by fellow lawmakers.

So never for a moment doubt the power of a blog. It's true that I have no evidence that it was actually this blog that made the difference. And I have no way of knowing that the 6 or 7 people who read it each day are close enough to Cheney to mention to him what I was suggesting. But considering all the other bloggers were just kvetching about what he did wrong, never bothering to tell him how to correct the wrong, leads me to believe that in some small way the advice given here helped.

You never realize how the little things in life, things long forgotten about, can shape your ability to assess a situation and provide you with keen insight. Every adversity has buried within it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. One day you're accidentally shooting your friends and the next day (or even 35 years later) you're able to use that experience to give sage advice to the leaders of your country.

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