Former Bush adviser and all around nifty fellow Karl Rove has recently become darling of the Sunday talk show circuit- and not just because of his pretty face. Wherever he goes, he lends an erudite, professorial air to the discussion with his reasoned, well-thought-out analysis of why this particular element of the Obama administration is bad or why this other policy decision is catastrophically terrible even though it happens to be a continuation of his own former boss' decisions.

Some people are saying that Karl Rove is talking out of his rather corpulent ass just because he speaks in a series of boldfaced lies or, in the parlance of the Bush White House, opposite-truths. And that's just not fair at all because we just don't have all the facts.

Sure, the things he says appear to have no basis in reality- any reality that we are familiar with, that is. What if Karl Rove is, in fact, a visitor from an alternate universe? Though it is highly unlikely, it is still possible that Rove isn't lying at all but rather giving us a fair and reasoned assessment of the president Bush he served under on Earth Beta and the evil mecha-Obama he fought there.

Admittedly, it's a pretty far-fetched theory, but every time Rove opens his mouth he lends more credence to the idea. In this light, his string of strange behavior begins to make sense. No wonder Rove seems so annoyed, even puzzled by criticism of the Bush administration. In Karl's home world, George W. Bush really was a heroic figure, beloved for his level-headed leadership and his intellect. How dare these pencil-pushing geeks criticize this great man for the gaffes, missteps, and war crimes he may have committed on this particular version of earth?

From his perspective, we're the ones who aren't making any sense. We're the disingenuous cads attempting to back-fill history with outrageous lies to supplant our own wounded egos. Rove is merely an innocent servant of the people who refuses to sit by idly and watch his man be so roughly abused by those who traffic in such trifles as facts and evidence.

Bearing this in mind, Rove is far more than the sniveling political pariah he appears to be. His presence in this dimension represents a major breakthrough in the field of quantum physics. As it turns out, comic books early 90's sci fi had it right all along. Blammo. My 10th grade science teacher can suck it.

Based on a rough reconstruction of recent events, it looks like Rove crossed over from his home universe about a year ago, shaken loose from the spacetime continuum by a massive cosmic earthquake caused either by a super-nova millions of times more massive than our sun or the inauguration of a black man in the most racist industrialized nation on earth(s).

What happened to the our Karl Rove is unknown, though it is speculated that he now resides in the other reality writing a hotly-anticipated memoir celebrating the twin recessions that never happened, the revamped and entirely solvent Social Security system, and the thwarted terror plot of September 2001- all thanks to George W. Bush, his wise stewardship, and his love of reading memos.

All the evidence we have, namely the ridiculous things that come out of his fat mouth, seems to point to the latter. If you're still skeptical, just apply Occam's razor to the situation: when you eliminate all the messy, hard to understand stuff the simple explanation you've been rooting for all along must be true. Or something like that.

Just this week, Rove criticized the Obama administration for letting "a cowboy president try to act in an extra-constitutional way to violate a fundamental principle in the Constitution," and, incredible as it may seem, he was talking about someone else. Now I ask you, how anyone with half a brain, certainly anyone smart enough to wear glasses that painfully nerdy, could say something like that with a straight face unless they suffered from a massive head injury or were privy to a completely different set of facts tied to a dimension of reality beyond our grasp?

Just how or if he will go back to his home world is unknown at this time. One thing observers can agree on is that he would almost certainly be happier there. While astrophysicists debate the specifics of how a return trip might be possible, a consortium of science teachers have volunteered to launch him into space at the earliest possible convenience and work out the details later. No word yet on whether he will accept the offer.