Just another tease

Helen Thomas
Shamelessly playing upon our emotions


Left-wing "journalist" Helen Thomas (insert your own joke here) has threatened to inflict severe bodily harm on herself if Dick Cheney runs for President.

Of course, in all seriousness, no one wants any physical misfortune to come to Ms. Thomas -- retirement (or prolonged silence) is really all that any normal person would hope for. But please, Helen, don't play with our emotions this way.

I fear her threat is just one in a long, long line of disappointments . . . like the cruel, cruel teases from Hollywood establishment types who had threatened to leave the country upon a Bush victory, but who, sadly, reneged.