In the interest of fairness, we contemplate the possibility that Idiot Al "The Torture Guy" Gonzales isn't the blithering idiot he seems to be

Of course Harvard may have been happy to have a little of the "diversity" that an itty-bitty Latino from Texas would bring their student body, and the state Supreme Court on which he served as a justice was Texas's, for which I'm not sure you can claim more than partial brain-cell credit. To this day, the principal witness to The Torture Guy's brilliance is his pal George--who, come to think of it, is the one who put our Al on the Texas Supreme Court, and who, come to think of it, has diplomas of his own from Yale and Harvard.

Probably the most persuasive argument that Idiot Al isn't as dumb as he appears to be is that, well, who could be? The answer to that, it appears, is: an eerily large number of the people who've been appointed to positions in the Bush regime.