Fellow Austinite disgusted-with-statesman ping!
Good points you make.
I don't know if you saw that article, but I was biting my lip to keep from screaming at the top of my lungs about that article being buried in the back of the main section. I started a letter to the editor, but my excessive use of four letter words would have never made print.
If that article had been critical of the Bush Administration, it would have been above the fold on A-1. If I wasn't on the student discount subscription price, as my daughter is still in college, I would cancel my daily destruction of trees to that rag.
The only reason I still subscribe, is to know what the enemy is doing and what their plan of attack is, so I can destroy their lies.