Fascinating story about the proliferation of websites around the world on which people report the bribes they paid to bureaucrats to get governmental chores accomplished — a payment to get a birth certificate in India, for example.

The idea suggests all kinds of derivative ideas for us. I’d be surprised if there’s a lot of petty bribery in the permitting and similar governmental business in Arkansas. Perhaps I’m naive, particularly when I think of some of the tales told from smalltown, speedtrap Arkansas. I’m confident, though, that many tales could be told on such a website about undue influence in government by corporate and other special interests. An idea for a tech head to develop, perhaps?

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It does recall, however, the hotline Gov. Mike Huckabee set up after the revelations of the Nick Wilson and Co. legislative scandals. It produced nothing of consequence.

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