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I'm Baaaack.  Sorry for disappearing with unfinished cartoon business on the table.  I was not abducted by aliens but I have been in Chicago. Many thanks to Mencken and Auggie for keeping the home fires burning with bickering.

Nunya properly wonders what this cartoon is all about.

Ever since The New York Times masochistically sicced an independent prosecutor on itself by demanding an investigation of the "leak" that outed secret agent woman Valerie Plame, and landed its reporter Judith Miller in jail, the Times has had a leak problem.  Newspapers depend on leaks to report news. The Times ran an editorial on the subject April 16.

Now we have the "good leak", one that comes from a whistleblower reporting wrongdoing in an organization (preferably one that will lead to the impeachment of the president).  And we have the "bad leak", one that an organization springs to make itself look good.  The bad leak In this case was Scooter Libby's attempt to discredit Ms. Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, following Wilson's attempt to discredit Bush in a Times Op-Ed.

Bad leaks lead to jail.  Good leaks lead to Pulitzer Prizes.

So, are leaks good or bad?  Depends.

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