OK. Its summer and I have been reading up on Karl Rove. Asshole is a word that comes to mind - not, as you may well believe, primarily because he is one (and a serially leaky one at that:
In 1992, Rove was fired from George H. W. Bush's 1992 presidential re-election campaign for allegedly leaking information to journalist Robert Novak. State campaign manager Robert Mosbacher had allotted Rove only one-quarter of the campaign's $1 million direct mail contract, after Rove had the entire contract in 1988. As Novak wrote, “Also attending the session was political consultant Karl Rove, who had been shoved aside by Mosbacher”. Novak's column described the firing of Mosbacher by former Senator Phil Gramm.)
Novak and Rove deny that Rove was the leaker. Mosbacher maintains that “Rove is the only one with a motive to leak this. We let him go. I still believe he did it.”
(Sources: “Karl and Bob: a leaky history,” Houston Chronicle, Nov. 7, 2003, ; “Genius,” Texas Monthly, March 2003, p. 82; “Why Are These Men Laughing,” Esquire, January 2003)
And not because President G.W. Bush affectionately calls Rove “Turd Blossom”.
But because Rove is so close to the Swedish word for asshole - röv.
And - it being the silly season and all - that got me thinking of gerbils and duct tape and other assorted stuff.
Which led me to the following:
Concrete Enema:
Rectal Impaction Following Enema with Concrete Mix
by Peter J. Stephens, M.D., and Mark L. Taff, M.D.
from the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 8(2):179-182, 1987.
The patient had used an enema containing a concrete mix which became impacted and required surgical removal. The use, abuse, and complications of enemas are reviewed.
There is more where that came from, including curling irons, shampoo bottles and even a hundred watt light bulb
[Because this electric bulb was a large object (maximum diameter, 61 mm; length from metal end to top, 114 mm) made of fragile glass, special consideration had to be taken to avoid breakage that would have resulted in lacerations to the rectum and adjacent structures, with consequent complications.]
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