Please tell us you've already read Richard Cohen's ingenius article published in Wednesday's Slate.

It's about, as he calls it, "One man's desperate attempt to quit the Los Angeles Times." And while Cohen is, in actuality, a columnist for the Washington Post, we think his hypothetical premise is pretty damn realistic. Here's how the piece begins:

Can somebody help me? I've been trying for days to quit the Los Angeles Times, but I cannot seem to do it. In the first place, every time I announce I'm leaving, a more senior editor ups and quits and grabs all the attention, and, in the second place, I do not know anymore who my editor is, who the editor is, who the publisher is, and who owns the company.

See? Hilarious, in a non-Dilbert office humor kind of way! But our favorite part is the fictional LA Times staffer's job description: he works for "a special section…created by some forgotten editor to appeal to people who don't read the paper and therefore would not know the special section has been created for them."

And then, of course, there's the "insider's" perspective on the whole Grazer scandal…

The trouble with Grazer, I quickly found out, is that he was being represented, public-relations-wise, by 42 West, an outfit that also handled avocado ranchers ("Calories Kissed by the Sun") and, also, that the girlfriend of an editor no one could remember also worked there. A clear conflict of interest

And there you have it. Another instance of art imitating life, imitating a really unfunny television sitcom.