Reality takes a holiday on High Street

Mississippi AG Jim Hood has developed quite a specialty in talking about things that are supposed to be secret, like his state grand jury investigations last year and the recent settlement in the State Farm v. Hood lawsuit. But how low have Hood's fortunes sunk? This low: he can't even win an argument when he's the only one talking.This op-ed in the Jackson Clarion-Ledger appears to be part of some odd kind of strategy in which Hood goes around in a wheelchair with two black eyes, a neck brace and both legs in a cast while claiming to have cleaned the other guy's clock. Specifically, Hood is now implying he won the lawsuit against him:In fact, allegations lodged against me by this insurer were shown to be false when a federal judge recently threw out a lawsuit it had filed against