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...coming out as gay easier if you have a mask and superheroic strength? Just ask Batwoman. DC Comics is making her a lesbian in a new serial. The goal: to increase DC characters' "overall diversity," says company veep Dan Didio. Batwoman is not alone in being a member of the League of Social Justice. A host of fictional heroes are emerging to fight for real-world causes...
...VEEP'S VITRIOL In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to "go f___ yourself" after the Democrat criticized Halliburton, which Cheney once...
...parade in which Cheney would meet and greet voters. "Um," said a Cheney staff member tentatively, "Mr. Cheney does not like to shake hands." That was actually always part of his appeal: between his age, his four heart attacks and his aura of grouchiness, Cheney was the first Veep in generations to hold the Heartbeat Away portfolio without actually aspiring...
...Which is why this weekend's turn of events are so ironic and so revealing. By this time in a two-term presidential run, the vice president is normally running full-tilt for president himself, especially on weekends. By now, a veep is routinely raising eyebrows for finding reasons to be in key fundraising cities on Saturday nights. The last two-second term veeps, Al Gore and George Herbert Walker Bush, would never have wasted a weekend in rural Texas; they would have spent it in Iowa or New Hampshire or hopscotching somewhere else, collecting chits in key states...
...that's has been Cheney's Achilles' heel as veep-he doesn't hear the politics of things anymore. He didn't hear them in the first term much when he held secret meetings with energy lobbyists, refused to detail the sessions and then fought the matter through the courts as White House aides cringed. He didn't hear them on torture and ran way past the fence line last year in trying to prevent the enactment of John McCain's reasonable insistence that Army interrogators stick to the rulebook. And I'm betting he didn't hear them last...