Wilkerson banned from Mass. State House

It is quite possibly, as so many surmise, the increasingly popular 'play crazy' defense strategy.

If it's that kind of ruse, it's redundant, and the saga is astonishingly crazier and stupider than first it seemed.

Were it theater, that statehouse scene would have come off far better if the entourage had dramatically whisked her to McLean hospital, before her health insurance expires, with the Beacon Hill Press Corp in tow.

Proponents of the 'crazy ploy' theory - stay prominent in the media until other, more powerful ones fall and take more of the heat, which is also crazy, but far more interesting - are probably on to something.

In either or neither case, Bostonoids are riveted to what may end up quickly and profoundly changing the composition of the Massachusetts Legislature.

Luridness and intrigue aside, this may be a heaven sent opportunity for Black Boston to move beyond the pied piper politics of mindless and ineffective militancy.