Dick Cheney gets paid when you go to jail

I was listening to yesterday's Democracy Now! and they were talking about how Dick Cheney has been indicted down in Texas. Some inmates at this prison he owns down there had gotten abused. They didn't say whether the prisoners had gotten fucked in the ass, or if they'd just been beaten with night sticks - just that they'd been abused.

Elliott Wilson-style sidebar: If you were in prison, would you rather be fucked in the ass, or beaten to a bloody pulp with a nightstick? If you chose the former, it probably wouldn't hurt nearly as much [||], but you'd never really be a real man again. If you chose the latter, you'd be putting yourself in grave danger, but there's also the possibility you could heal up and become more or less normal.

Anyhoo, it occurred to me, how is it even legal for the vice president to own a prison? It's no wonder people are getting thrown in jail for years at a time just for getting high - the god damn vice president gets paid every time someone goes to jail! You would think that would constitute some sort of conflict of interest, but how should I know? I was pre-med.

They say the indictment has yet to appear before a judge, and that the judge could throw it out. Even if he doesn't, President Bush would probably just pardon him anyway. It's getting close to that time when President Bush is gonna have to start pardoning all of the criminals in his administration, and his family. Remember that niece he had down in Florida who was a tweaker? I think I was saw her in an episode of the Bang Bus. Or was that just some other rocked out latino broad?

Elliott Wilson sidebar #2: Remember when Joanna Angel did that special get out the vote pr0n? Well I heard this week's episode of the Bang Bus takes place down in Miami while there was an Obama rally going on. Of course I wouldn't have any way of knowing myself. I stopped watching pr0n when I heard Noam Chomsky finds it degrading to women.

Finally, to give you an idea of the scope of my media consumption these days, after the jump is video of Cornel West's appearance on that same episode of Democracy Now! I know these videos from Democracy Now! can be more boring than watching two old people fuck, but this really is one of the best things I've ever seen on that show. At one point, Cornel West actually starts dancing in his chair to that silly Kidz in the Hall, Obama record. And then at the end, he spits a hot freestyle.

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