Regular readers of Corrente, both in our current Mighty Building and our old home, might recall the names in the following story, like Christian Bailey and the Lincoln Group. I guess we should commend the just slightly larger staff of the New York Fucking Times for finally catching up to this story that we were telling you about nigh onto two years ago, rather than being bitter at not even getting a line included like "The company got no attention except from a few obscure left-wing blogs....".

[Chants quietly to self: "It's not about ego. It's not about ego....its about getting the story told. The hell it's not about ego!"" *Slap* *Deep breath* "It's not about ego..."]

Oh well. On with the tale. I am sure you will all be shocked, shocked to find out that it's even worse than we knew before:

Two years ago, Christian Bailey and Paige Craig were living in a half-renovated Washington group house, with a string of failed startup companies behind them.

Mr. Bailey, a boyish-looking Briton, and Mr. Craig, a chain-smoking former Marine sergeant, then began winning multi-million-dollar contracts with the United States military to produce propaganda in Iraq.

Now their company, Lincoln Group, works out of elegant offices along Pennsylvania Avenue and sponsors polo matches in Virginia horse country. Mr. Bailey recently bought a million-dollar Georgetown row house.

Do go read. And take a look at the numbers of the kind of money--your money in fact, Iraqi money, mostly borrowed Chinese money if you get right down to it--that these schmucks are snorting out of the ever-overflowing trough over there. Almost makes us think we need another word stronger than "war profiteering" as that doesn't seem to shock, or even slightly bother, anyone anymore.