Abuse of Power

My landlady, as wise and even-headed a landlady as has ever been a stalwart member of the Clinton camp, forwarded me this excellent article about the Samantha Power incident. Which incident, Ian Williams says and I agree, should never once have happened.

Isn't it great how, as in the case of Power v. Peev, allegory can exist even in real life?

And, of course, the epigraph is priceless:

You cannot hope to bribe or twist
Thank God, the British Journalist,
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to.


JEK
Used to read his quotes back to his interview subjects when he was a reporter, until he got better at writing both quickly and legibly (which latter skill he's since abandoned in the tradition of physicians.)