Gee, I don't know how Doug Bandow of Cato could have been so stupid as to have accepted money from Jack Abramoff to write favorable columns about Abramoff's clients. Did he learn nothing from Armstrong Williams? Didn't it ever occur to him to disclose his conflict of interest to his readers and to Cato Institute? Now, he's ruined his career and his reputation. What a shame for him and for every other columnist who now will have to work under this shadow of doubt from their own work.