Full Disclosure Some of you suggested below that, in discussing Skip Gates' journalistic relationship with Bliss Broyard, I was inadequately forthcoming in confessing the controversies associated with my own writing.

Balderdash, I said. Stuff and nonsense. I've talked this stuff to death.

Bah. Humbug.

As if to prove the point, I'll be on CNBC tonight between 7:20 and 7:30; I was interviewed for a taped piece about the invidious ubiquitousness of confidentiality agreements.

I have no idea what I said and I probably look like hell, seeing as how I was interviewed in a broom closet in some midtown office building. (The glamor of TV.) But you can't say I didn't warn you......  ¶ 3:54 PM