Date: 02 Jul 2009 08:58 Subject: Quis custodiet... Security: Public Mood: disgusted

Via Politico: "For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors."

We know this because a lobbyist who got the leaflet turned it over to the Politico, considering it a conflict of interest on the paper's part. As Politico says, when a lobbyist doesn't like your ethics, you know you've really messed up.

"We've already settled what you are, Madam.  Now we're just quibbling over the price."

Date: 02 Jul 2009 10:39 Subject: Cover FAIL Security: Public

I'm reading Nalini Singh's Angels' Blood, which (I think) rachelmanija says belongs on the Laurell K. Hamilton/Anne Bishop shelf of "Slipshod, but engrossing in that all-id all-the-time way". She's so right. A few paragraphs in I got to the obligatory character self-description.

"a too tall female with pale, almost white hair and silver eyes." Three paragraphs later: "It was a good thing she'd inherited dark gold skin from her Moroccan grandmother or she'd have resembled a ghost."