Two Weeks Away? So, What’s New?
I and my wife have just spent two weeks in Italy without a newspaper in sight and, more importantly, no desire to see one and no burning thirst to know what’s happened in each and every twenty-four hours of our time away.
So, I’m home and scanning the Washington Post and the thing that seems most necessary, top priority in fact, is to find out what Doonesbury has been up to for the past sixteen days and, because it’s the online edition, I can look. And I do. The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed itself down, due to a landslide of sell orders it couldn’t electronically keep up with, the Senate has postponed a committee decision on Samuel Alito and the Congress is falling all over itself to sound like it’s serious about clipping the wings of lobbyists, but it’s Doonesbury I take the time to march through, day by day, all sixteen of them.
That either says something about Doonesbury or something about me, I’m not sure which.
But the congressional posturing on lobby money and rules, post Abramoff …