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It's also a common observation now, first voiced, I think, by our saintly editor Michael Kinsley, that it only takes about fifteen minutes for those of us in the DC media-warp, to channel surf before we stumble across someone we know.
Sounds bad, but Saddam's natural son Uday is reputed to make his father seem saintly by comparison.
The sole exception to this, I suppose, is the equally saintly TV-free Maureen Dowd.
The saintly assassin draws the line at shooting a little boy, however, so the kingpin, along with Jürgen Prochnow and other killers with scarred-in-hell faces, comes after him with Uzis, rocket-launchers, and so on.
The saintly Omar Ibn el Khattab, second successor to Muhammad and the Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem in a.d. 638, declined an invitation from the Christian Patriarch to pray at the Holy Sepulcher for fear his followers might then want to turn the site into a mosque.