New York State of course has a Governor, name of Dave Patterson, and the Governor has a Chief of Staff, name of Charles O’Byrne. There’s been a bit of fuss here in the Empire State since it came out that O’Byrne hasn’t been paying his income taxes. Like, $300,000 worth of them. Well, Chief O’Byrne has an very excellent reason for not having paid his taxes, so his attorney tells us. You see, the unfortuante Mr. O’Byrne suffers from an ailment known as “non-filer syndrome.” That’s a form of mental illness that incapacitates the sufferer for tax-filing purposes. I am not making this up. Here is the story from America’s Newspaper of Record.

I’d write more about this but I feel an attack of non-blogger syndrome coming on, so I’ll have to go lie down for a while. Kathryn, would you mind just posting this as is, if you’ve got over that spell of non-editor syndrome I heard about? Thanks.