I'm going to get around another impeachment installment, but this is related and it uses a favorite flick to make its point. The article is by Maureen Dowd, whose jaundiced eye has seen just about everything that Washington D.C. and politicians have to offer. She's usually not at a loss for words of her own or in need of such an extended analogy, but this essay is pretty spot on. Plus, this is a classic film (especially the screenplay by Robert Townsend). A good excuse to see the film again and consider the "Chinatown" we're in today. BTW, the title of the piece, "Touch of Evil" is also the title of a film by Orson Welles that starred Welles, Charlton Heston, and Janet Leigh from 1958 and that is considered one of the last--and best--of the golden age of film noir. Dowd knows her flicks!
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