Instead it’s blank. Bereft. Filled by filler. As consuming a Void as the current version of the Sentry. Might as well be greeked copy.

What I’d like to blog here is my pal Jeff Stein’s new Washingtonian piece on Steve Kappes, the highly influential CIA deputy director, Libya dealbroker and all-around baller. Usually I prefer structural, institutional explanations to Dude-Doing-Thangs profiles. Kappes is most definitely an exception. Lucky for me, Jeff came through. Only I can’t read it, and I can’t bring it to you, because it’s not online.

Jeff tells me I have to acquire a printed copy of the issue. Wow, is that not going to happen. My friend Catherine is no longer their web editor, and we haven’t been roommates in I guess two years, so there go my opportunities for free copies of Washingtonian. I don’t have a dentist appointment scheduled and I’m not going food shopping this weekend. I’m out of ideas.

If you work at Washingtonian, please consider putting Jeff’s piece online. You ran it because you like it, after all. So why not let people read it? On the internet? The medium through which way more people read things than subscribe to magazines? And through which you might convince people who don’t subscribe to subscribe?

Update: In fairness to Washingtonian, they have at least teased Jeff’s Kappes profile.