Unlikely as this sounds, if you accept the faulty reasoning of two New York Times writers, I might be sending secret signals to Monica Lewinsky. If you'll remember, this space predicted six months ago that coverage of this whole Fornigate thing was gonna get desperate. Last week, no less than the New York Times finally put a complete impossibility on their front page, which means pretty much everybody else joined in the tabloid nonsense as well. Obviously, it's a lot simpler to report what the New York Times said, even if it's goofy, than it is to come up with something on your own.
Vicarious journalism is much easier and gets better ratings than the real thing anyway.
Everybody, therefore, wrote that Bill Clinton might have worn a jazzy gold necktie on the morning of Aug. 6 as some sort of secret message to Monica Lewinsky on the date of her grand jury testimony. End of theory. Which obviously I couldn't possibly be saying, not that reality matters much anymore. Not exactly likely either. Doesn't mean I'm not expecting a subpoena any minute now.