Posted 9:15 AM by Gene

It's been a while since we've been able to really have at Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We've suspected this is because the prestidigitators of these rags might be getting wise to their coffee tables, although more likely this is a mere temporary lull before a storm of spinning and plugging. Our friends at WaPost run a story about one of our medics in Iraq, which we'd guess makes the usual nasty fun of the war, but we don't want to find out. They also run a story on polygamy that would not have been without YOU-KNOW-WHO doing a TV show (doesn't a force of evil produce it?); but one wonders if the boys in the hermetically-sealed editorial suites in New York might not be getting wise there too because people can see through plugs disguised as news stories. Thankfully we take the RIGHT side on abortion, whatever that is. We used to be so sure of these things! (We'd guess Mr. Mark was hoping the Rev. Graham would say something useful, but he does not seem to have obliged.) As for the TWXSTERS, our pal Dick "GUNS CAUSED COLUMBINE" Corliss runs a heavily camouflaged cover plug for LUCAS SPIELBERG (does HE want to make a "documentary" too?) whose marketing is further connivingly hidden by a cover that suggests something anodyne. Were Tweedledee and Tweedledum merely anodyne. At least then they wouldn't bother us.