Molly Ivins, ever on the search for fuel to feed her pathological hatred of George Bush, finally discovers Indiana's enormous list of "terror targets," weeks after almost everyone else has mined all the obvious humor from it and moved on:
The most cunning refinement yet in the administration's plot to scare the liver, lights and onions out of us with Tales of Terror Plots is the Department of Homeland Security's brilliant move to declare Indiana the national center of terrorism, with 8,591 potential targets. Many citizens have questioned the Indiana move -- some claiming it is a waste of money trying to stop attacks on the Wabash Cannonball. The Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument might merit a little more attention. This is precisely why it is better to have Michael Chertoff and Karl Rove making this Homeland Security decisions, rather than Osama bin Laden.
She probably caught Jon Stewart's brilliant expose of the same subject on "The Daily Show." Thus is a meme sustained.
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Jealousy doesn't become you, old man.