Did you read that Jim Brady is asking for big money from Politico's owner to start a local website? He already spent a fortune hiring the best money could buy to create Loudon Extra, and if you check the WPO's financials today, revenues since he took over have dropped like a waterfall, and keep dropping now that he was fired from WPO. So, my question is: why in the WORLD would anyone give Jim Brady a penny when he is a proven business failure? Why not spend the money finding new technology, or at least do something that has a small chance of success--his formula is a) spend money to hire the smartest people who like paychecks and don't like risk, b) do what has been tried before. That mindlessness already brought down wpo.com--is Politico just looking for a repeat of that disaster??