'Rasslin' On High

'Terror debate' is phony drama | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press: "The viewing public loves a fight, even when the match is rigged and the final decision a foregone conclusion. How else to explain the continued popularity of professional wrestling, or why some 50-year-olds can't help but linger when their channel-surfing chances on an old Road Runner cartoon?

And so, in the absence of a celebrity death or a world-class police chase, those of us who lack the sense to unplug are doomed to spend our Memorial Day holiday witnessing endless recapitulations of last week's 'terror debate' between Barack Obama and Dick Cheney, even though everyone knows that confrontation was as phony as anything the WWF ever staged..."

Update: More from Gov. The Body:

"...You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."

So says Navy SEAL, professional wrestling entertainer, star of "Predator" and former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura in an interview with Larry King. Ventura claims that waterboarding is torture, based on the waterboarding he endured during SEAL training..."

Excerpt from Grant Lawrence.