Being laid up with a certain injury, I've decided to use my diary not to talk about the latest zeitgeist, but to diarize my thoughts.
As you may recall, much hay was made in the past of the fact that chickenhawk Rush Limbaugh avoided service in Vietnam due to having a pilonidal cyst, described as "an ingrown hair on one's ass".
Update [2005-5-24 7:40:11 by steppenwulf]: Suggest you don't click on that cyst link unless you have a cast-iron stomach. Sorry to any troubled by recurring images of what they saw.
And yes, this is meant to be taken with a side of snark; I tend to have a very dry sense of humor such that others can't detect my snark. It's "stealth snark". After this experience, I'm actually more inclined to believe that El Rushbo and/or his parents probably searched the yellow pages and paid good money for a Dr. who would diagnose that he was 4-F, and pilonidal cyst was likely a good excuse.
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