BD: excellent post–thank you. I agree: anonymous sources are nothing more than slime and they should be disregarded a priori. If the MSM–or any media for that matter–what to float a story, they do what we do here on the blogs–we source it or tell folks it is our opinion. But regretably, anonymous sourcing is the bread and butter of the MSM and is accepted by all as somehow a first amendment right. Your solution, to which I fully subscribe, cuts right to the heart of the charade of sourcing.

Jamie Irons: isnt “ula” the diminutive ending for Romanian names? eg, drac (ula?). I ask only in the interests of linguistic exploration.