"Some Pigs Are More Equal Than Others"

Here's a passing thought in the day's tumult:

Consider New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine.

Nevermind all the weezling around what will eventually be admitted as fact: the man was not wearing his seat belt in that car. With a state trooper sitting right next to him and driving.

"When asked why the trooper who was driving would not have asked Corzine to put on his seat belt, [Corzine's chief of staff Tom] Shea said the governor was 'not always amenable to suggestion.'"

Have you got that, then? To some pigs around the animal farm, wearing a seat belt is a "suggestion". To the rest of them, it's a matter of Nazi-styled checkpoints and back-channel propaganda thrown down from Washington.

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that "an additional 5,839 lives could have been saved" in 2005 if everyone over the age of four in a vehicle had been wearing seat belts.

And on that bet, three hundred million people are subject to the morally and politically subversive and corrosive petit-totalism of being stopped in the peaceful progress of their private affairs by arrogant slobs in impressive uniforms -- not to mention all the accoutrements of main force, running out to bloody air strikes if they think they need 'em to deal with recalcitrants -- all while a Big Brother Daddy can wave-off a "suggestion" and his lackey in the left seat will turn a blind pig's-eye, which he would never do for you or me.

Now, you watch: if that bastard ever walks again, he will roll out of the hospital and straight to the news cameras parked at the front door with a redeemed zeal for seat belt jihad like you never saw before.

And the rocket-sled to hell roars on.