What matters – and what I hoped even in my haste would be clear as “where I was coming from,” to any intelligent and unruffled writer for DV and/or reader of my early comment yesterday on Joshua Frank’s piece – is how the media reacts to the two retirements. I guess I thought there’d been sufficient time and events pass, between the two retirements, for public contributions from radical leftists like us to make additional and significant differences in the media’s reaction to them. Which admittedly, and not trivially, my friend, is a story still being told.

In any case, I trust, and I hope for all our sakes, that the media’s main reaction to the exit of Roberto Gonzales will be more like mine was than like yours. In your own so-appropriate words, Greg: Wake Up