[chimera]

Not very good ones, and also quite selective in whose facts they check. I guess it means fewer liberal hacks perusing Palin’s book. As far as I know, none of them bothered to “fact-check” Obumwad’s so-called books. Ayers may have scared them off with a bomb threat or something.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Watergate was the final nail in the coffin of journalism. H. L. Mencken, a high school drop out, nursed a deep contempt for those whom he called the hoch-gelernte, and reserved an extra dollop of spite for reporters (he would never have called himself a “journalist”) who has soiled the trade (he would never have called it a “profession”) by polluting it with academic nonsense.