IF I WERE A FICTION WRITER...

It's been a rough week for Israel prime minister Ariel Sharon. He was felled by a massive stroke, underwent at least three major operations to flush the waste from his brain, was declared dead by at least two media outlets, and placed on life support in a medically induced coma. But this morning, it was reported that the "Bulldozer," after being stimulated with pain, suddenly started moving, and "began to breathe on his own..."

Coincidentally, at the same time in the United States, American president Dick Cheney, who has had four heart attacks of his own, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-cleaning angioplasties -- all of which resulted in implanting a mechanical heart -- aneurysms behind both knees and a lame foot, began experiencing acute "shortness of breath" and was rushed to George Washington University hospital in D.C.

Hmmmmm...Just as the Bulldozer starts to breathe on his own, the Bullshitter loses his ability to breathe. If I were a fiction writer, I'd have a ball with that one...