Freebsd Fortunes 6

"The jig's up, Elman."
"Which jig?"
                -- Jeff Elman

The Junior God now heads the roll
In the list of heaven's peers;
He sits in the House of High Control,
And he regulates the spheres.
Yet does he wonder, do you suppose,
If, even in gods divine,
The best and wisest may not be those
Who have wallowed awhile with the swine?
                -- R.W. Service

The justifications for drug testing are part of the presently fashionable
debate concerning restoring America's "competitiveness." Drugs, it has been
revealed, are responsible for rampant absenteeism, reduced output, and poor
quality work.  But is drug testing in fact rationally related to the
resurrection of competitiveness?  Will charging the atmosphere of the
workplace with the fear of excretory betrayal honestly spur productivity?
Much noise has been made about rehabilitating the worker using drugs, but
to date the vast majority of programs end with the simple firing or the not
hiring of the abuser.  This practice may exacerbate, not alleviate, the
nation's productivity problem.  If economic rehabilitation is the ultimate
goal of drug testing, then criteria abandoning the rehabilitation of the
drug-using worker is the purest of hypocrisy and the worst of rationalization.
                -- The concluding paragraph of "Constitutional Law: The
                   Fourth Amendment and Drug Testing in the Workplace,"
                   Tim Moore, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol.
                   10, No. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 762-768.

The Kennedy Constant:
        Don't get mad -- get even.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets.
                -- L. Zadeh

The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut.  To reveal
an artist to the people can be to destroy him.  It isn't to anyone's
advantage to see the truth.
                -- Bob Ezrin, rock music producer

The Killer Ducks are coming!!!

The kind of danger people most enjoy is
the kind they can watch from a safe place.

The King and his advisor are overlooking the battle field:

King:           "How goes the battle plan?"
Advisor:        "See those little black specks running to the right?"
K:      "Yes."
A:      "Those are their guys. And all those little red specks running
        to the left are our guys. Then when they collide we wait till
        the dust clears."
K:      "And?"
A:      "If there are more red specks left than black specks, we win."
K:      "But what about the
^#!!$% battle plan?"
A:      "So far, it seems to be going according to specks."

The knowledge that makes us cherish
innocence makes innocence unattainable.
                -- Irving Howe