Friday, August 22, 2008 – Yes, amazingly enough, we’re actually back on schedule. Here’s our August 8 paper, (Volume 252, No. 23, for you archivists; 3.1 MB).

This sassy little unit takes a look at the eventual legacy of a guy who’s been picking up his mail at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the last seven years and seven months. Toward that end, we considered the careers of King Midas, Mario Mendoza, and Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov, peered into the Gazette’s crystal ball, and asked the question, “What the heck is Southern Methodist University doing?”

We also did what we could to make up for the more profitable media’s failure to cover a bizarre but believable story Seymour Hersh told as an aside during an interview. Someone, during a meeting in Dick “Dick” Cheney’s office, proposed dressing up U.S. Navy SEALS as Iranians, and sending them, in fake Iranian gunboats, attack U.S. ships.

A little too much for The New Yorker, or The New York Times. Just right for us, though.