It's Bad Behavior Friday™! -- water boarding edition

Cheney says water-boarding "is a no-brainer for me" if doing it means saving lives. The White House said he wasn't really talking about water boarding. In fact, the exchange on a talk radio show was:

"Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?" (the talk show host) asked.

"Well, it's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said. "But for a while there, I was criticized as being the vice president for torture. We don't torture. That's not what we're involved in."

Oh -- right -- "a dunk in water." Probably what Cheney was thinking about was those Dunk The Geek tanks at fundraising picnics, right?

In Orange County, eleven people are being charged with voter registration fraud after they turned in registration forms marked Republican -- though the people signing up were under the impression they were registering as Democrats! The case happened in the same congressional district where a Vietnamese-American candidate's campaign is being investigated for sending a letter to 14,000 Latino households falsely saying that it is a crime for immigrants to vote. Seems like somebody down there has been reading too many political thrillers and Nixonite memoirs.

In New York, a woman went to a shrink's office on a job interview and was groped "in a menacing and lustful manner." The shrink is the author of a book titled "How to Pick the Right People."

How much you want to bet the guy's lawyer will announce his client has just entered rehab?