In an article titled "The Enron Box," author Matt Bivens and The Nation attempts once again to pin the tail on the elephant.

Here's the lead sentence:

When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began on a new stadium, Kenneth Lay agreed to spend $100 million over thirty years for rights to name the park after Enron.

Only one problem. Bush co-owned the Texas Rangers, not the Houston Astros.

Do you, like me, wonder what else they got wrong? Considering the source, is it even worth bothering to read the rest?

Hey, Houston and Dallas are both in Texas, right? That's close enough work for an eastern writer.

Interesting - they edited the column. It now says "Texas Rangers", with no indication of the correction. "Journalistic Integrity - we've heard of it!"

Yup, down the ol' memory hole--how appropriate for The Nation.

Of course, to be fair, I occasionally do the same thing here, when someone points out an error, but usually only for grammar or spelling. If it's as egregious as what they did, I usually do an errata via update.