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The image that sticks with me is this obscene kind of “hunting”… dyspeptic old men groaning their way out of cars to have farm-raised birds released right in front of them so these ancient farts can stand there and merrily blast them out of the sky, afterward leaving them to rot. This is not hunting for food, and barely even for sport. It’s just wholesale slaughter for amusement. It’s excessive and sickening.
It’s hard to have an objection to people who kill to eat, who show respect for the animal they’ve brought down. And I’m no vegetarian. But killing any living creature for simple amusement isn’t just wrong, it’s evil. And it’s typical of Cheney, who, more and more, lives up to the caricature of dark excess he’s earned over the past six years.
