Sunday, March 30, 2008  Don't know much about ...  Quick, name
the news organi- zation at which a 180-word AP pickup from a
newspaper six time zones away is the third most super-important
story of the day!!!  Aw, you peeked. Anyway, if you find the
syntax of the Fox reefer a little confusing, here's how the AP
quotes the chap in question:   Wait, wait, wait. "First time in
history." You mean you guys were in charge back when the locals
had that little Passover dispute in Jerusalem, before we even
knew whether we were supposed to call it AD or CE, and you still
can't figure out who's entitled to be standing on which part of
the steps up to Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sep? Some Dan
Brown-encircling conspiracy you are.  Anyway, that's between the
AP and L'Osservatore. Why is this story, with its telling
deictic pronoun, such a big deal at Fox? That's a bit of a
longer story, to which we now return in hopes of having it in
shape by the Tuesday night deadline (some of y'all may be
looking at the same witchi