In a totally unexpected development, Cindy Sheehan has vanished from the headlines:

Larry Sabato, professor and director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Sheehan was a summer of ‘05 phenomenon. This is a classic (media) mode of covering controversy — its the August doldrums, and a feeding frenzy develops and they usually last a month or two and are gone.

In addition, Sheehan has become an anti-war clich