Jenn and I perform the Macarena. Thanks to Michelle for getting the Xtra-Wide shot of my enormous gut. W
For the last couple of weeks, I've been working on a project relating to the merger of two large agricultural companies. These companies produce, well, let's say pork bellies. (They don't.) The law firm handling the merger has brought in over a hundred contract attorneys to pore thorugh the companies' records and compile the "second request" for information from the Department of Justice. We have worked in two shifts, seven days a week, some since the beginning of June. When we're done, the DOJ will spend weeks poring through everything that has been turned over, looking for evidence that this merger will create an anti-competitive market for, um, pork bellies.
Remember something: almost every crop grown in this country is subject to rigorous price regulations or supports of some kind. This, um, pork belly industry is no different. These companies can't buy or sell a single, um, pork belly except at minimum prices decreed by the federal government. Yet the companies have had to spend mind-blowing and offensive amounts in legal fees to appease the Department of Justice, which claims that it wants to protect consumer interests by promoting competition in the marketplace.
All this leads to one question, blindingly obvious to anyone but a government regulator - if you want competition, why don't you stop fixing the prices? W
No matter what he may or may not have done that we don't know about yet, the things that we do know Gary Condit has done get more disgusting by the day. Yeah, so he had an affair - maybe even several. Not even news in Washington anymore.
But then he lied to cover it up - when his truthfulness might have helped police find his missing mistress. Condit, like Clinton, apparently believes that lying to cover up an affair is simply a natural and understandable human reaction, and that it's ok no matter who it hurts. Not anymore.
As if he weren't making things bad enough trying to save his own skin, Condit has now gone out and hired a private lie detecter expert to grill him about the case. Unsuirprisingly, he passed with flying colors.
Even if the Congressman is not involved with Chandra Levy's disappearance, he's doing his very best to make himself look guilty. Polygraphs are notoriously unreliable. Now we know that so, too, is the Congressman from California. W
Wow. Blogger is superfast tonight. I've taken advantage of that to make a few housecleaning changes. Most viewers should have an improved experience. If not, let me know. W