i write letters

Dear Wyeth Consumer Health,

When you write on the label of your Robitussin Cough Medicine "New Formula Better Taste", against what are you measuring this "better"? Because as a consumer of this toxic swill, I can assure you that there are few things I've put in my mouth that taste worse. A cough/cold is surely bad enough without your contributions to the misery.

Thanks,
Anthony

wonderful wonderful irony

Y'know, I didn't think the Deep Throat/Watergate stuff could get more interesting, but I was wrong:

But Felt's role as the most famous anonymous source in US history was even more complex and intrigue-loaded than the newly revised public account suggests. According to originally confidential FBI documents--some written by Felt--that were obtained by The Nation from the FBI's archives, Felt played another heretofore unknown part in the Watergate tale: He was, at heated moments during the scandal, in charge of finding the source of Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate scoops. In a twist worthy of le Carré, Deep Throat was assigned the mission of unearthing--and stopping--Deep Throat.

This placed Felt, who as the FBI's associate director oversaw the bureau's Watergate probe, in an unusual position. He was essentially in charge of investigating himself. From this vantage point Felt, who had developed espionage skills running FBI counterintelligence operations against German spies in World War II, was able to watch his own back and protect his ability to guide the two reporters whose exposés would help topple the President he served.

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