RIP:  Irony. You will be missed.
Death often comes unexpectedly. Even when the deceased has been unwell for a long time, it can still be a surprise. Irony had been ailing ever since 1973, when Henry Kissinger, a war criminal, won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the audience at the awards ceremony didn’t burst out laughing. [...]

Bush League Accounting
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money”, Senator Everett M. Dirksen is supposed to have said. If a few billions are real money, then what’s a few trillion? Nothing to worry about, according to White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.