Is Jayson Blair the Manchurian Journalist?
Patricia Williams pointed out something interesting in The Nation. Disgraced New York Times journalist Jayson Blair briefly attended Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. As near as I can figure, he was a student there in 1994 or thereabouts, just when the Vast Right Wing Cabal (or Conspiracy, or whatever) was starting to feel its oats. Was he sent on a mission to destroy the New York Times, or whatever other liberal institution he could work his way into? Crazier things have happened.
Lucky Duckies
The Wall Street Journal is pushing it's ridiculous Lucky Duckies idea yet again. For those who peruse neither the Journal nor Tom the Dancing Bug, the belief of the WSJ editorial board is that poor people are "lucky duckies" because they don't have to pay federal income tax. What amazes me is not so much that this idea that seems to come from a Swift satire made it onto their editorial page once, but that they keep bringing it up. They seem to hold a real, honest-to-goodness conviction that poor people should be grateful because they don't have to pay income tax. (Never mind that they still pay payroll taxes.) Sheesh.
Meanwhile, it looks like Enron will probably get a massive refund of the taxes that they paid on their fictitious profits. I can't make this stuff up, folks.
Correction: The lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird is named Finch, not Fitch. Oddly enough, someone found this page by searching for "Atticus Fitch" in Google. Makes me wonder whether a blogger could gin up traffic by using a phrase like "Jennifer Lopez Naked". Of course I am far too ethical to do such a thing.
Still not inspired to write a haiku about Gephardt. It's tough.
Woody 
8:39:29 PM 
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