Provocative Piece on OBL by Dick Cavett

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/the-week-that-was/?hp#preview

The Week That Was
By DICK CAVETT



This is not the column I was going to write, but because of the recent days of relentless saturation — and I don’t mean by or about the Missouri River — whatever I try to type, my fingers, unbidden, produce the letters “Osama bin …” etc.

Will the day ever come when we will find it hard to recall his name?

My first unwholesome thought was, “I hope he knew he was being killed.” And not, say, shot in the head from behind while thinking pleasant thoughts, or enjoying a Nestle’s, and so going bye-bye without ever realizing that his goose was well done.

Did he cry out? Try for a gun? Utter anything?

And if he heard gunfire downstairs, why didn’t he have a gun to hand? We know from that old piece of stock footage we’re all heartily sick of that he can fire one.

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Anything from Dick Cavett is worthy of a K & R

and this is no exception.