ok. straight up. the washington post op-ed page is both inexplicable and despicable. every day it features some press release from the office of some politician or official. but to let alberto gonzales's staff just repeat the lines from his testimony, press conferences etc is truly idiotic. it has nothing to do with opinion journalism; it's the opposite of opinion journalism; just the mind-numbing pr of the powerful. it's not even writing, much less good or interesting writing. this is completely self-evident, and it is beyond my understanding how the post persists in such practices.