corrente

Yeah, I got The Sunday Times again, today. I still have such happy memories, and I keep thinking our relationship can be saved...

But I'm losing hope fast.

The most important election for a generation...

Abu Ghraib, where the chain of command is a burning fuse heading right for the White House

Iraq, where (to do them justice) the Times reports that we've lost the countryside, and we're pinned down in the cities....

Electronic voting machines, which have already been shown to have changed a Democrat's win to a loss....

A Rove-ian smear, being refuted in real time....

Insultingly obvious use by Republicans of terror alerts for political gain....

And the Republican National Convention, right in New York, this very week.

And which section, in today's Sunday Times:

Has the most pages?

Weighs the most?

Consumed, in other words, the most money, the most editorial attention, and the most resources?

Why, the launch of T, the new Times Style magazine.

I was about to rest my case, except—OK, I admit it, I'm still a newspaper junkie—I flipped to the Editor's Note, where I found the following:

The T in our logo stands for the Times tradition of news authority.

Ha! Ha ha ha ha! Bwa-hah-hah-hah-ha-ha! It's almost too much! Jodi Will-Whore-'Em! Judy "Kneepads" Miller! Wen Ho Lee! The Clenis™! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! Stop it, you're killing me! Oh-hoh-ho-ho-ho.... Heard from Jeff Gerth lately? Bwa-hah-hah-hah-ha-ha! I can't stand it! Oh, Howell, thou should'st be with us at this hour. Oh my. Goodness.