My wife made an excellent point about this news item, whose headline is “Rumsfeld Heckled by Former CIA Analyst.” The story itself tells us that a former CIA analyst asked Rumsfeld some tough questions during a Q&A session. Certainly the man took a confrontational tone, but nothing he did seems to conform to the definition of “heckling,” unless heckling in newspeak means asking anything other than tame and insipid questions of our leaders.
Incidentally, our new daughter, after undergoing observation and getting over a little jaundice, was released to us on Tuesday. The last night she was in the hospital, as the jaundice was starting to go away, I found myself softly singing an impromptu song as I held her: “It’s Not Easy Being Yellow.”
Someday she’ll appreciate her father’s sense of humor.
12:02 am on May 5, 2006
