infotainment, the definition

The incomparable Mickey Kaus (recently the subject of a nice, nuanced profile by the NYT’s Gina Bellafante), rounds up all the leads in the sudden, mysterious departure of CIA head Porter Goss (scroll down to May 5).

I know nothing about it, many others are writing about it, and I don’t care to speculate…except to say the obvious: open bureacratic warfare has been going on in Washington for quite some time. Pundits are just now getting around to observing and writing about it).

Kaus (scroll down to May 5) sure gets the infotainment angle [emphasis in Kaus's original]:

This is also a case where the speculation is almost certainly more fun than actually knowing the truth, even if the truth turns out to be salacious.

My conclusion: politics has now regained its rightful place in the entertainment arena. More on this another time.

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edited to add a link to the NYT profile of Kaus