Real men are not caring.

Once again, however, Cheney did not let reality dissuade him from his course. As the disaster has unfolded in Iraq, he has continued to insist against all evidence that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, that the dictator was aiding Al Qaeda, that nothing the Bush administration has done was a mistake. Those who have known him over the years remain astounded by what they describe as his almost autistic indifference to the thoughts and feelings of others. ‘He has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met,’ says John Perry Barlow, his former supporter. Cheney’s freshman-year roommate, Steve Billings, agrees: ‘If I could ask Dick one question, I’d ask him how he could be so unempathetic.’

—T.D. Allman, “The Curse of Dick Cheney,” Rolling Stone, Aug. 25, 2004 (available at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6450422/the_curse_of_dick_cheney/), via dday, “Dissecting the Lizard Brain,” Hullabaloo, Sept. 22, 2009 (available at http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/dissecting-lizard-brain-by-dday-two.html).