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Rosenthal Finally Chucks It

By Gritsforbreakfast

First Dimitria Pope's resignation at the beginning of the week and now Harris County DA Chuck Rosenthal has resigned. Somebody pinch me!Why would Rosenthal leave now after all he's endured? According to his resignation letter, reports the Houston Chronicle, he declared that "Although I have enjoyed excellent medical and pharmacological treatment, I have come to learn that the particular combination of drugs prescribed for me in the past has caused some impairment in my judgment."Evan Smith at Texas Monthly thinks the excuse would "make Lindsay Lohan proud." "The drugs did it!," he wrote. "That explains everything! And excuses nothing."Speaking of Evan, in honor of this occasion he's submitted his own Chuck Rosenthal Haiku to commemorate the degraded DA's final hoorah; I think it sums up matters quite well:Chuck?s awful careergets a lethal injection:Drugs made him do it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 15, 2008 (boomark / email).