What do you think? Is the Bush administration “hiding something or lying” about what it knows about the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation? Or are you, perhaps, the sort of sucker who just accepts things on trust and believes everything that government officials tell you? Maybe, like Roy Marshall, a fifty-eight-year-old air-conditioning salesman from Albany, you think that “the Bush administration knows more than they’re telling.” But then, also like Roy, you are smart enough to realize that “all politicians do that.” Tell me about it! So then, what does Roy say to the big question? “Are they lying flat out? I don’t think so.” But, clearly, he’s got his eye on them. Roy’s no fool. He’s the sort of guy who, if you ask him whether Enron’s crooked accounting practices are “widespread in other large corporations” or “an isolated case,” will be with the sophisticated 7 ...

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