I have been using Google Earth to look at super-high-resolution version of selected paintings from the Prado in Madrid. Most of the time you can zoom in so close that you can look inside the cracks in the paint, but there’s this one section of the Garden of Earthly delights, a lumpy blue ball with spikes and screws sticking out of it. There’s a fissure at the bottom, and hairy, animalized humans are scuttling in and out on all fours. And the darn thing won’t come into focus no matter what I do. I couldn’t figure out why–there didn’t seem to be any special significance to this part of the painting–and then it occurred to me: Dick Cheney must have moved there.