Inauguration Alternate Reality-Maine

Remember all those important news stories from four-and-a-half years ago? We didn't think so. Today's Globe reports on the aftermath of one of them:

A slender man... kicking the tires of an 18-wheeler as he readied the behemoth for a journey down the star-lit highways. that have become his unexpected lifeline.

After 30 years as a reporter, 29 of them at the Portland Press Herald, Ted Cohen six months ago embraced a new profession: trucking.

This trucker is the former reporter who broke--or rather, tried to break--the story about George W. Bush's arrest for drunken driving in Kennebunkport. The story, and eventually, its reporter, was squashed by spineless editors. So the reporter, rather than taking up blogging, took up trucking.