From the Department-of-Truth files: An Illinois House Committee recently introduced legislation to bar state officials from affixing their names to signage paid for with state money. Hardly a week out of the governor's mansion and already Blagojevich's name has been struck from billboards and dedicatory placards everywhere.

How would Chicago's own Richard M. Daley, Mayor, famous for attaching to his name to anything that will sit still long enough for the ink to dry, react if the city enacted a similar measure?