On a possibly unrelated note, I was watching a brief clip of a particularly gruesome slaughterhouse scene in "Fast Food Nation" the other night and felt the need for a grilled burger or maybe a plate of beefheart with marrow gravy. Perhaps there is some sort of uneasy parallel between DC and a slaughterhouse.


"Mark Twain once remarked that there are two things you should never see being made, Politics and Sausage, because if you knew how they were produced, you might lose your taste for them." Or possibly Otto von Bismark said this, Upton Sinclair and all that.