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Dawn has always liked the expression, "That's rich," meaning that whatever's being referred to is dripping with irony. It seems an old-fashioned phrase, likely to be uttered by screen stars back in Hollywood's heyday or squibbed by early 20th-century novelists. For some situations, the expression is perfect. For instance, it immediately leapt to mind when Dawn overheard the Smirking Chimp (a.k.a., President Bush) defending his "let them drown" effort following hurricane Katrina. The same SC who flew back to Washington to sign legislation to brand the removal of one tragically braindead white lady's feeding tube as "murder," had the chutzpah to pontificate to reporters that he hoped no one would try to "play politics" with the New Orleans disaster.

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Now, that's rich.

Dawn supposes that if the Chimp had been on the Titanic he would have, from the safety of his first-class lifeboat, deplored all the hubbub and splashing being done by those fleeing steerage: "Hey, buddy," he'd say while clubbing fingers clutching the lifeboat's side, "maybe you don't realize that your mindless flailing is rocking our little boat here-- would ya mind taking your injured wife, that wailing infant, and yourself and go die where none of us here have to look at your grimy, frightened faces? It's very upsetting...."