By Andy Worthington
Well, obviously, I don’t have proof, and the title’s just meant to lure you in. As an installment of my brief foray into the art world, this is an image from Philip Toledano’s excellent new online installation, America: The Gift Shop, in which he asks, “If American foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell?” and presents a series of eerily seductive pieces, including this fine take on the traditional snow globe — the “Cheney Shredding Secret Documents Snow Globe” — in which Vice President Dick Cheney gets rid of the evidence, in case he is ever parted from the all-enveloping cloak of unaccountability that was hand-crafted for him by his chief of staff (and former legal counsel) David Addington.