The banality of evil

Senility? Dementia? Attention-deficit disorder? Whatever it is, when my eyes brushed against the second paragraph from this story this morning...

Mr. Cheney's office said David S. Addington, the vice president's counsel, would become his chief of staff, and John P. Hannah, who had been principal deputy assistant to the vice president for national security affairs, would become Mr. Cheney's assistant for national security.

...my first thought was, "Hannah Arendt is going to be Cheney's chief of staff?"

Her mortality is a problem, but it otherwise makes sense.