JUST HORSING AROUND

A few days after racing's current poster horse, Barbaro, suffered that grievous shattered lower leg in the Preakness, I had this idea to enter a post to the effect that Senate Majority Leader and MD Bill Frist had viewed films of the accident and declared the horse to be not only in surprisingly good health but ready to run at the Belmont Stakes. But I procrastinated, and then something came up, and then something else, and now it just wouldn't work. Timing is everything in satire. This is probably why my sitcom based on the Kennedy assassination was never optioned.