D'oh!

I sorted through the "to be blogged about" pile this weekend (Mr. Jane has noted with alarm at how tall the stack of papers and printouts is getting) and found a few things that sort of fit together. Here we go:

If a newspaper is going to write about how you. an elected official, are billing the taxpayers for your reading material, and notes that you are spending more on personal purchases at Barnes & Noble every year than some school libraries in your district spend stocking their shelves, try to avoid having it run at the start of National Library Week. It just looks bad. (Cattabiani, Mario, "Cohen hits the books: $28,200 worth," Philadelphia Inquirer April 2, 2006, p. B1).

In what can be a surprise to no one, a man who tells his fiancee all about his unethical business dealings and then dumps her for a 24 year old waitress just a few months before the wedding, finds himself on the other side of the table from authorities after she tells all. Two of Tom DeLay's press secretaries, who were later involved in the Abramoff affair, were engaged to be married. Until he called it off and she started talking. (Mullins, Brody, "Behind unraveling of the DeLay's team, a jilted fiancee," Wall Street Journal March 31, 2006, p. 1).