The Merry Sage of Broadcasting Excellence By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

What is that laughter I hear? I am at work here in our nation's capital, where there is rarely much laughter. Rather there are Solemnities passed from one High and Mighty to another. On Capitol Hill the solons exchange Declarations of Virtue, Manifestos of High Purpose, and increasingly Threats -- particularly threats against free-spirited writers and the prodigies of Talk Radio. The giants of Congress also conspire in slopping up the pork; for instance, just the other day, there was an "earmark" of $130,000 for a National Fat Ladies' Library in Ohio (or is that First Ladies' Library, but does it matter?) and $500,000 for a "Virtual Herbarium" (perhaps a high-tech privy for Senator Larry Craig). Yet I still hear laughter.

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