Like a Circus, but With More Clowns

You can't make this stuff up.

A former Bush regime official, Claude A. Allen, was arrested for pulling the same scam pirate-fan-fave Peter Saarsgaarrrrd* pulls in the movie Garden State: Buying items from Target, then taking the receipts and going back into the store, pulling items off the shelf and "returning" them.

As Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo puts it: "[Allen] resigned abruptly one month ago to spend more time with his family, thus, like David Safavian, providing the prescribed Bush administration interval between resignation and arrest."

Hah!

Rob

*Yes, it wasn't a very funny SNL sketch, but it was based on an inspired idea.