I wrote rather much about day-to-day political matters last week. Let us work our way out of it. Today I will take up a political matter with an odd philosophical twist. Tomorrow, I'll ask a philosophically freighted question about political history. To begin with an oddity: the Secretary of Health has now sworn to a very strange account of why he fired a subordinate. Secy Kennedy says that he asked her, "Are you trustworthy?" and she replied, "No." So he had to fire her. I'm curious whether anyone in the world believes this story. First: who says in earnest (not by way of posing a hypothetical) that she is "not trustworthy"? Untrustworthy people generally desirous of keeping their jobs seek to pretend to be trustworthy just as liars pretend to be sincere. Saying "I am untrustworthy" seems a very odd way of quitting. Why not just use the old standby, "I quit"? Anyway, this hypothetical "yes" in response to th...