Ron Paul was just now on a phone interview with Foxbiznews, Fox had asked about the SEC’s newly-lawful Freedom of Information Act exemption. Paul, sounding as usual stunned but not surprised, said something like, “you know, I’m ON these committees, and i heard nothing about this exemption until i saw the report of it on Fox News. This is why, on any long bill, it’s better to just vote ‘no’. The reason the bills are so long is so that anybody can throw these things in at the last minute and before you know it the whole landscape has changed. On this thing, I’ve put my staff to work, I want to know who put it in the bill, why, and how.”

(Alice-in-Wonderland, you have messages)

Somehow, listening to Paul, my memory harked back to this old article –the author is trying to describe something we keep seeing over and over but cannot quite find the words to describe (which is of course no doubt why we keep seeing it over and over again).