Editor Waggener:After having thrice read the "Conway announces Do Not Call judgment" article , this wayfaring stranger still cannot fathom about what Attorney General Conway doth so loudly crow. He pompously states that "This agreement should send a clear message that there are consequences for failing to follow our telemarketing laws" -- but the message sent really isn't so clear, to-wit:

The calls were allowed to continue for just under six years (July '02 to April '08), and it then took two and a half years for the AG's office to obtain the consent judgment, which consists of nothing more than a promise by the violators they won't get caught again, and a reimbursement -- not a fine, but a *reimbursement,* for crying out loud! - in an amount which falls between petty cash and chump change.

The Attorney General and I are both of the Rooster party, but Mr. Conway's self-aggrandized crowing would have been better made as accompaniment to an actual "sunrise" rather than a false dawn.

s/The Wayfaring Stranger