No wonder VP Cheney walks that way

Here is an interesting article on the psychology behind politicians and why so many of them lately seem to be pissing their careers down their leg because of their "wide stance." Basically you have to have a big set of cajones to get into politics and succeed, and because of that politicians naturally take more risks. This quote jumped out at me: "Often, successful politicians got there largely because of that personal chutzpah, a risk-taking predilection honed and encouraged by success." Of course in the case of our accidental Governor Marion you succeed because the other two candidates manage to imitate primates throwing poo at each other through the whole campaign.