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
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