Like my mom did with me, I taught my kids to tie their shoelaces the wrong way. Bunny ears, bunny ears, jumped into the hole, popped out the other side, beautiful and bold. I didn’t teach them to wrap the loop in the wrong direction on purpose, of course. I did it because I didn’t know better. I taught them the way I was taught.

“But did he have to name names?” one of the many editors who have fired Mike Frome plaintively intoned to investigators from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Well, yes he did.

“He gives ‘em hell,” bragged one of the many editors who hired Mike Frome. Well, no he didn’t. To borrow the words of Harry Truman, he “just told the truth on ‘em, and they think it’s hell.”