Just got a piece of mail encouraging me to subscribe to Jim Hightower’s newsletter, The Lowdown so I can keep up on the behind the scenes crimes of the neo-con cabal. Hightower describes the newsletter as, “one feisty, fact-packed and often funny newsletter…to give you the lowdown on what’s really going on in Washington, Wall Street and the world at large.”

I wonder if this doesn’t fall under the category of things you should let other people say about you. And if you are going to say it about yourself, why not go ahead and tell us the newsletter is unrelentingly funny?

Lest I leave the impression Hightower has no fans, however, Willie Nelson (“Hightower rocks!”) and Barbara “Elf” Ehrenreich (“..and he charges only ten bucks a year–now that’s nickels and dimes!”) both make appearances.