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"Brain bleach"
My very good friend _____ says that's what they need after playing this. And that's a bad thing?
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Somehow I don't think a quote from Gandhi, especially THAT
quote, addresses this phenomenon adequately. Much more to the point would be a quote from Michael Shaara's short story The Sling And The Stone, published in the March 1954 issue of Imagination, a cold war tale of a Russian plan to destroy America by means of an orbiting artificial moonlet slowed down just enough to lose orbit and smash the USA. (Remember, this was 1954.)
The narrator, Diavilev, a Russian scientist who wants no part of this scheme, having just been told of this plan, surveys a room full of boasting, laughing crewmen, and has this sudden thought:
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
Went Viral some time ago.
This is quite old. Can't remember how old, exactly, but it got a lot of play in the entertainment news world and one the late night talk shows. I'm pretty sure, though, that it was before the revelation that the banks had gone all funhouse-mirrors on us, though.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Not sure what to make of
this article that someone posted at Eschaton:
The rump of the bankrupt bank Lehman Brothers is sitting on a stockpile of 450,000 lb of uranium "yellowcake" which could be used to power a nuclear reactor or, theoretically, to make a bomb.
Lehman's potentially explosive asset is a hangover from a commodities trading contract undertaken before the Wall Street bank went bust in September. The substance, yellowcake, is a solid form of mined uranium which is yet to be enriched.
Liquidators have been trying to offload the stuff for months. But the price of uranium has been dropping steadily, leaving Lehman's yellowcake languishing in a variety of secure storage facilities, some of which are in Canada.
Bryan Marshal, Lehman's chief executive, who was appointed to salvage value for creditors, told Bloomberg News that the stockpile, which is worth about $18m, would be sold responsibly. Eeek?