Witty writers needed for short job. . .

[Guest guest]

Having just finished some notes on this list about the current state

of the CDC and the uncanny ability of Simon Wessley to hold sway over

people, I just read an adorable exposition on the 'excuse note from

Momma' as an under-appreciated genre of modern American fiction,

specifically as it related to our former Atlanta Mayor

recently convicted and sentenced to prison for tax evasion, among

other claimed misdeeds, in light of a 'note' that recently surfaced

purported by his now-deceased then-limited-income mother who

supposedly wrote to 'confirm' that she had given him (but with no

mention of her other children) $20,000 in cash. The article goes on

to suggest 'excuse notes' for the Atlanta Braves, Bush and

more. The good part now, is that there is a contest/blog at

http:www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/town-talk/

where each of us (wow!) can write an 'excuse' for the Atlanta-based

CDC, for, for example, ignoring thousands of published studies

showing biological bases of CFS in promoting their recent studies as

the first credible evidence of a biological basis for CFS because we

took away their reading because we didn't want them to become

demoralized for their having dropped the ball when they spent their

CFS research money on other things instead. . .