Request Reprint Send us your request to reprint copyrighted material. It was a PR nightmare, not helped by this newspaper's ragamuffin of a gossip columnist, one Vladimir Sauguslavsky. Which is his obligation to do.
Satire is the feather that can bring down a kingdom.
Used right, it can protect the downtrodden, right wrongs or set a prince, civil servant or bureaucrat down a few pegs. The thing was, Barry Gump and his daughter Nancy, who run the company, weren't sitting in their mountaintop castle, overlooking the SCV, madly laughing and washing their hands with an invisible bar of soap before the auction. When I heard this, well, my heart soared. We all make mistakes. Some of us by the minute.