In Book III of Gulliver's Travels, there is a group of Projectors on the island of Laputa who are trying to decipher the secret thoughts and plans of diplomats from the color and composition of their turds. If The New York Times keeps on its present course, it too may find itself among that coterie on Swift's island of The Whore. The lower left front page of this Sunday's Times introduces an article by David S. Cloud, complete with photographs and two sports diagrams, on Rumsfeld's style of play on squash courts, which provides "a window into Mr. Rumsfeld's complicated psyche." Among other glimpses into his  aggressive thinking and behavior, a Chris Zimmerman observes that "He hits the ball well, but he doesn't play by the rules." Chris "works in the Pentagon's office of program analysis and evaluation" and "is sometimes in the Pentagon athletic complex when Mr. Rumsfeld is on the court," although "he has never actually played his boss." He has, however, been...(Read Full Post)