In message <199408111921.MAA08505@netcom7.netcom.com> Sheldon Glass writes:
| > Plonk. | | A reply showing true intelligence.
I saw it differently. To me, the plonk was the sound of your wadded up email hitting the bottom of the trash can. An entirely deserved destination, in my opinion. If you really believe in the sanctity of govenrment and in the intelligence and integrity of the government employees, then you're so far out of phase that discussion is pointless.
I believe that government employees are drawn from the general population and the distributions of their attributes are roughly the same as those of the general population. 'Sanctity of government' is not a phrase or concept that I introduced.
Government's fucked, as are it's employees. It's axiomatic.
Fanaticism and other types of inflexibility and to be found among government employees, among the general population, and in fact among most groups of any size. -- Jim Dixon