Snowfall in June, barking cats, PZ Myers converting to Christianity---there are some things that just seem impossible. I would have put "Robert Novak demonstrating that he's an even bigger turd than you thought" on the list, because up until this afternoon, I would have thought it physically impossible for him to increase his douche quotient. He has maxed out, or at least I thought. But, nope, the man is a veritable genius of discovering new and interesting ways to push the boundaries of assholery into previously uncharted territory. In a recent interview with National Ledger, he crowed about his willingness to be a law-breaking patsy for the cavalcade of criminals that we call the Bush administration, and he was whiny about it to boot. When asked if he had a chance at a do-over at his treasonous outing of a CIA agent to punish her husband for blowing the whistle on the Bush administration's lies about WMDs in Iraq, Novak said this:
