Re: Declan's book

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:48:53PM -0800, Tim May wrote:

Colin Powell recently got paid $200,000 for a 30-minute off-the-cuff speech on some "why foreigh policy matters" b.s. topic. Of course, it was underwritten by a Lebanese "businessman" said in news reports to have close ties to Syrian intelligence, so do the math. A legal way to buy influence in our strange society. If Colin Powell can give N of these b.s. speeches a year, my thoughts are surely worth $10K for a day or two's worth of writing. Of course, this won't happen.

Ah, your output for two days is not worth $10K, at least based on a publisher's estimation of market value. Sadly, politics may not be as rewarding as investing. * -Declan * Unless you're Colin Powell