And speaking of Orwell...

Do you think somebody should tell the government that 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, and not an instruction manual?

In case you cared what VP Biden's been up to...

Possibly the most important event of the vice president's day Tuesday is to meet at 2:15 with Earl Devaney. Everyone knows him as chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board -- the top guy monitoring the gazillion-dollar stimulus and the overdue economic recovery, and ensuring that the taxpayers financing same know all about it.

However, no one outside the room will know what goes on in that Biden-Devaney meeting. That's because the government meeting on government transparency has been closed.

On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.