lost tooth

...all the scandals now surfacing are linked. Something is rotten in the state of the U.S. government. And the lesson of Hurricane Katrina is that a culture of cronyism and corruption can have lethal consequences.

That's the conclusion of "Find the Brownie," Krugman's latest, curiously AWOL from its place behind the NY Times Self-Selected Wall of Idiocy.

His point is that Bush hires cronies. Loyalty is the succubus of Bushism. No suckie, no bushie. Who knew. But the suggestion that all the scandals are linked - this is interesting. How? By Intelligent Design? See the figure in the carpet, the signature in the press corps whore? Or is this less design than character - Bush, carver of his own inflamed fortune, drawn like a lady moth to the cozy loins of clean-cut numbskulls who bark on command?

Bush, plummeting(1) incisor from the hound of hell.

(1) courtesy of Harry.