Bob Collins, of Minnesota Public Radio’s News Cut blog, shows us that sometimes a rod is just a rod.

See, what’s again turning a non-story into a story just clogs the news-o-sphere. Hey, I’m no Cheney fan either, but common sense would dictate that if there were something malicious or incriminating reflected in his sunglasses they wouldn’t go and post it on the Whitehouse.gov Web site.

You don’t Spock to tell you that. Come on people, let’s get back to the important stories, like Britney Spears and who just got booted from American Idol.

*Sigh*