Some of you have asked why I haven’t posted in a few days. Actually, they’ve been more along the lines of Why haven’t you written anything for your blog, you bum?
Sadly, as I mentioned, I’m on a bit of a deadline.
So? I hear in reply. What’s to stop you from posting some of those witticisms and bon-mots that are your hallmark?
Well, you see, the editor I’m working for reads the blog too. [Vir Cotto wave] So if he reads this, he’ll rightfully ask why I haven’t delivered the manuscript to him yet.
Isn’t he going to read this, too?
I did wave to him, didn’t I? Waggled fingers and everything.
So what are you going to tell him?
Um– warm-up exercises. Yes, this was all a warm-up so I could write funny stuff for the story.
You need to warm up more. Try some of that left-leaning stuff you post instead.
Fine. [grumblegrumblegrumble] Go read Brad DeLong’s website instead. He has a nice thing on how “the second most important political executive in our country claims to be ignorant of one of the key business decisions his company made during his tenure as CEO”, reprinted from that bastion of liberal pandering, BusinessWeek.