New Heart Device Allows Cheney To Experience Love October 3, 2007 | Issue 43•40

(NOTE: The following is a humorous, fictional article. Mister Cheney has had no such experience.)
   
WASHINGTON, DC—Recovering from minor heart surgery Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney stunned both the medical and political establishments when he mysteriously began to experience love for the first time in his life, sources reported Tuesday.


A replaced defibrillator is having unexpected effects on the vice president, as this photo taken Monday reveals.
It is believed to have been the first recorded incident of Cheney exhibiting compassion for his fellow man.

Calling the vice president's sudden ability to love "mystifying" but a possible medical breakthrough that could aid other Americans who suffer from acute mulishness and generalized misanthropy, Dr. Jonathan Samuel Reiner, Cheney's cardiologist, said in a press conference at George Washington University Hospital that the vice president exhibited a series of unexpected side effects almost immediately after regaining consciousness following his surgery. ...
(From the Onion)