..well at least it should be. Paul Reubens who plays the remarkably original characterization of PeeWee was caught pleasuring himself in a Florida porn theater--something that would never happen today with the ubiquity of DVDs and cable porn.

PeeWee disappeared from the scene, which I thought was a great loss. I am reminded of the incident because enough time has passed that PeeWee has been able to make a comeback of sorts on cable--fifteen years after the incident!

Arguably, I would charitably say, lying about the Saddam Hussein regime's interest in reinstating a nuclear weapons development program is far, far worse. How long should one stay out of circulation after having been caught with that particular pecker out of his pants?

In case you're confused, and I not necessarily surprised if you are, I am talking about Joe Wilson and the American "anti-war" constituency which launched its entire "Bush lied, people died" program on the back of Joe Wilson's assurances that Niger never discussed selling Uranium oxide, otherwise known as yellowcake, to Saddam.

At the time, I argued heatedly with former UNCoRRELATED poster Marc Schindler that Wilson was full of it, particularly since criminals had been caught only month earlier trying to sell African yellowcake. Subsequently, evidence trickled out, quietly and unremarked that confirmed the essential facts. Post-invasion, the entire matter became clear as glass--Saddam had in fact sent envoys on two occasions to Niger to discuss trade--trade in this context being Niger's only product--yellowcake.

While relatively-speaking, no one is listening to me, they do listen to Christopher Hitchens who writes for Vanity Fair and Slate. He has consistently debunked the Wilson lies and did so again this week.

Now that Joseph and Valerie Wilson's fantasies of having been persecuted by high officials in the administration have been so thoroughly dispelled by Robert Novak (and now that it seems the prosecutor has determined that there was no breach of the relevant laws to begin with), we may return to the more important original question. Was there good reason to suppose that Iraqi envoys visited Niger in search of "yellowcake" uranium ore?

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Remarkably, Wilson appears to be a guy who cannot be embarrassed into silence and low observability. In spite of Robert Novak's definite dismissal of the notion that the administration was out to "punish him", Wilson calls the cameras out, pecker waving in the wind, to have his clueless wife announce her lawsuit against administration officials.

Oh that Wilson had half as much class as Paul Reubens--we wouldn't be hearing from him for the rest of his squalid life.