Apparently Dick Cheney got into an argument on Tuesday with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee (I'm reading this in the Washington Post today)

Per. the WaPo, Leahy brought up the subject of Haliburton. Here's how the paper describes the event:

The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice.

"Fuck yourself," said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.

I'm intrigued that Cheney did that...after all being a politician seems to be all about smiling in public when your opponents bait you. But I'm more intrigued that the Washington Post just printed "fuck", even in the context of a quote. No asterisks, no "(expletive)", no nothing.

As the article goes on to explain, the exchange took place on the same day the Senate passed legislation described as the "Defense of Decency Act" by 99 to 1.

To my complete surprise, I am actually excited about seeing a Michael Moore movie. David Edelstein, writing in Slate, sums it up perfectly:

Along with many other polite liberals, I cringed last year when Moore launched into his charmless, pugilistic acceptance speech at the Academy Awards. Oh, how vulgar, I thought—couldn't he at least have been funny? A year later, I think I might have been too hard on the fat prick. Six months before her death in 1965, the great novelist Dawn Powell wrestled in her diary with the unseemliness of political speech during an "artistic" event: "Lewis Mumford gave jolt to the occasion and I realized I had gotten as chicken as the rest of America because what he said—we had no more right in Vietnam than Russia had in Cuba—was true but I did not think he should use his position to declaim this. Later I saw the only way to accomplish anything is by 'abusing' your power." Exactly.