alexpgp | Done (for today)!

I don't know exactly what happened, but I just came out of a berserker haze and appear to have done my six pages for the night. My most memorable (in a bad sense) moment was this one sentence whose only apparent punctuation mark was the period at the end, and whose original author must have been in stream-of-consciousness mode when he/she/it wrote it.

I think it took me close to a half hour just to translate that one sentence (or at least if felt like a half hour). Blyech.

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For some reason - don't ask why - I felt compelled last night to call into the radio show co-hosted by

gardengnome out of Kansas City. Something had been bugging me about the way the Enron scandal had been described recently by one of the media's talking heads as "Bush's Whitewater."

That puzzled me. Back when Whitewater was in the news, when the press was not actually reporting on events relating to Whitewater (i.e., who got indicted, who was talking, who wasn't, etc.), it seemed not shy in making comments to the effect of: there's nothing to Whitewater, other than Clinton-bashing.

So if, by "Whitewater," one means a hollow issue manufactured to embarrass the sitting President, it follows that describing the Enron scandal as "Bush's Whitewater" doesn't make much sense (unless you believe there's nothing to the Enron scandal).

In fact, such a description only makes sense if you concede the there was, indeed, something not-quite-right about Whitewater.

Now, as to whether such a description is correct... that's a whole different issue. The press cannot help but note that both parties got mucho dinero from Enron.
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I'll need to get up a bit earlier tomorrow to extract Section 8 from the translation and send it to the client.

Cheers...