I voted that, yes, traffic laws are for everyone and it gives me that much more glee that this story is about Novak. Because, you know when you run over pedestrians it's highly likely you won't notice they were there. Especially if the struck pedestrian ends up doing a modified version of Garfield the Cat slapped onto Novak's windshield. Another interesting tidbit I read in another newspaper was that Novak suggested the reason he might have missed noticing he had creamed the guy was that he was listening to NPR's Morning Edition. Hopefully the guy he hit wasn't seriously injured. No Bob, the main point isn't that he was still alive, the main point is that you're a lying, cowardly, weasely piece of goat choad.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

I'm offering bonus style points to the first right-wing talk show host who describes the hit-and-run victim's experience as "no worse than a fraternity hazing."

    Well, actually I don't ride as much as I used to- living across the street from work will do that- but I can tell you I believe the victim. From a fair amount of direct experience, the biggest blind spot for many drivers is the front windshield, and Novak was probably no different than millions of motorists on the road.

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    On a related note, it was Bob Novak who gave one of the better unintended insights to the American psyche that I think I've ever heard. While defending capitalism and free markets one day (IIRC during a C-SPAN interview), he noted that the sports car is a perfect symbol of economic freedom, because nothing about them is practical, yet we're all free to buy one. Now, that's in interesting point (even if it leaves out the vanity and status part of owning a car), but, as Nietzsche once noted about Luther, what's more interesting is what Novak didn't say-- which is that sports cars allow their owners to break the speeding laws in dramatic fashion, often in a matter of seconds, and have fun doing it. (Sure, you can speed in a station wagon or van, but is it fun?) The insight? Almost every American believes, deep down, that if they want to break a minor law, they have to perfect right to do so . . and maybe even a few not so minor laws as well. (The Clinton perjury case springs to mind.) To be grandiose for a second, it's one natural conclusion of Protestantism applied to an entire nation . . .

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras

Why is Bob Novak being in a minor automobile accident  widely reported while at the same time there is complete media silence about the 10 year old boy Paul Krugman raped?

Novak was diagnosed with a brain tumor yesterday.  According to the AP:

Syndicated columnist and former "Crossfire" host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.

Novak issued a statement Monday saying the tumor was found Sunday after he had been rushed to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital from Cape Cod, where he was visiting his daughter.

I feel really bad about the brain tumor.  What a horrible thing to go through.  My thoughts go out to him, his family, and his many readers.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

Man, Novak cracks me up. He was funny before this, and he's even funnier now.

Reading the story carefully there are a few things that don't jibe:

1. someone is splayed across your windshield, yet there is no mention of damage to the corvette. No dents..no dings....the vehicle is not a truck, lean on it hard and it dents. If there is no damage, could the corvette have brushed the person as it was making a turn?
   
2. Novak got cited for failing to yield the right of way NOT hit-and-run. I realize its punchier to say he was attempting to flee...but one would think if he was indeed fleeing, he'd have been arrested.

Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.