Law Prof Bill Jacobsen waited, waited, and waited for someone suffering from the last fevers of Bush Derangement Syndrome to tie the former president to the Balloon Boy story. And who answers his prayers? New York Times ex-theater critic Frank Rich.

Wrote Rich:

The Colorado balloon may have led to the rerouting of flights and the wasteful deployment of law enforcement resources. But at least it didn’t lead the country into fiasco the way George W. Bush’s flyboy spectacle on an aircraft carrier helped beguile most of the Beltway press and too much of the public into believing that the mission had been accomplished in Iraq.

If only Rich had been writing back in 1944. Take it away, Frank...

The Colorado balloon may have led to the rerouting of flights and the wasteful deployment of law enforcement resources. But at least it didn't lead to the invasion of Europe and the killing of 6 million Jews.

Thank God.

And Thank Frank for putting things in their proper New York perspective.