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>In real news, I saw that Apple stock went up $4 the other day based on a statement from Steve Jobs that his emaciated look is not due to a recurrence of cancer but to an unspecified hormonal disorder. Love them or not, it's hard to think of another institution which would be so devastated by the loss of its leader.
L Ron Hubbard beaming up caused quite a stir among the Thetans ...
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>Change of subject -- I bet you are bordering on apoplexy over Panetta for CIA head, am I right? Sounds like that nomination may be in trouble even among Democrats.
From the people who brought you Stansfield Turner and, God help us, John Mark Deutch.
I actually knew some of the folks who were instrumental in revoking the latter's security clearance. Has to go down in history as one of the worst appointments ever made to anything. Oh, and if I'm not mistaken the head of the search team that got Clinton to appoint him DCI was ... wait for it ... Leon Panetta.
I am truly gobsmacked.
He will be confirmed and then never allowed to actually touch anything by those who still understand what the agency is for. I give him a year before he resigns for reasons of health and is replaced by an old hand you've never heard of.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
