“Splash” Kennedy the Water Dog – UPDATED

:::SEE UPDATE BELOW – the Breeder named the dog before Kennedy bought him – END UPDATE:::

Professor Bainbridge wonders if there is something Freudian about the name Ted Kennedy gave to his dog, or even in his choice of pet, a Portugese Water Dog. He writes:

Was the choice the result of an utter lack of self-awareness? Or is the Senator giving us all the finger?

I doubt he’s that self-aware. But the question reminds me of what Buster wrote last year in his predictions:

3) Ted Kennedy will drink a Virgin Mary and, in a moment of clarity, finally “get” why he should not have named his dog, “Splash”.

Even when I was a Democrat, I didn’t much like Ted Kennedy, but I’ve always kind of felt bad for him. He may have power and money but the rest of the picture is pretty grim. I don’t believe he has any business sitting in judgement of Sam Alito or John Roberts or Clarence Thomas or any other public figure, for that matter (my whole turn rightward can be traced to the Clarence Thomas debacle, and the sight of Kennedy sitting there pretending outrage over the possibility that Thomas may have told a naughty joke, or asked a woman for a date) but on the other hand it cannot be easy to have spent so much of one’s life identifying the bodies of your dead siblings, nephews and nieces. It cannot be easy to know that the most promising lives were cut short, while he, the lesser and least of the clan, remains, with not much of a legacy.

The old saying is, you’re born with the face God gave you, you go out with the one you’ve earned. I find it almost unbearable, anymore, to look at Ted Kennedy

UPDATE: Please see this post for more info on this. Things are not always what they seem, and it does look like I’ve been unfair, here. Kennedy did not name the dog.