The ‘I Told You So’ I Never Told You, So:

I never told you “I told you so,” because I never told you. You can thank your media gatekeepers for that. (OK, if you read the small-circulation paper THIS WEEK WITH TEETH in the late 1990s in Paul’s Way Of Life Bicycles in Eugene, Oregon, you don’t have any excuse. But beyond that, there was never (until the advent of the blogosphere) a place for the story.

I originally ran across this exactly 12 years ago,