On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Sean Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I would welcome that. We're having a definite quality control problem > here. > > Fox has been aiming at a 3 year old mentality (mine! all mine!) but the > > rest of the media isn't as coherent. And.. to prevent too much thread > > drift - our Congress could definitely use an upgrade. Remember - these > are > > the culinary daredevils that wanted to rename "French Fries" to "Freedom > > Fries". Nutella would be pretty radical in their book. Perhaps if we made > > the food on Capitol Hill spicier all these people would leave and their > > replacements would be more interesting. > > > > There's an old expression, 'Quando dio, vuole castigarci ci manda, quello > che desideriamo.' When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. > Hm. I wonder what prayers these Congressmen are the answer to? Or perhaps.. I have a vague memory of Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" - God does extract retribution for evil.. he just has very bad aim.
