I love the Explainer. When it comes to news minutiae, Slate always answers the questions I have in the back of my head. Like this time: Why won’t federal prosecutors in Illinois use Barack Obama’s name?
Matt Kraning also pointed out to me the (very) interesting language in the complaint against Governor Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff Harris. They are being charged with “conspiring with each other and with others to devise and participate in a scheme to defraud the State of Illinois and the people of the State of Illinois of the honest services of ROD BLAGOJEVICH and JOHN HARRIS” (emphasis in original).
