The Illuminated Donkey

Regarding the threatening but harmless letter received by Daschle's office, I wish I had the transcript from this afternoon's press conference outside the Capitol building. The television in the pizza place where my department ate lunch was turned to CNN, and for about a half-hour I got to hear some FBI official repeatedly explain that the letter tested negative for any poisonous substance, while an increasingly desperate press corps kept trying to get him to say that it was possible that at one point the letter may have possibly contined....something. Basically it was 50 versions of the same question followed by 50 versions of the same answer, the cable news version of variations on a theme.