Double-A battery

Cartoonists aimed double-barreled ink cartridges last week at Washington's twin Topic A's: Alito and Abramoff. John Trever gave more weight to volumes of the judge's recent reasoning than to his Reagan-era writings. And although most of us couldn't resist gleefully linking the lobbying scandal solely to the GOP in-crowd, Steve Breen played it buy-partisan. Hard to put a price tag on such equal-opportunity disdain.

-- Joel Pett

January 15, 2006