Forward Biased (Less-than-current Events)

Man, I thought it sounded too good to be true...

Via Bill Quick we finally hear words we've desperately wanted to hear for four years too many.

The two politicians shared a brief expression of confusion and then Walsh asked, "What's your biggest beef with Langley?"

"Three thousand people are killed in one morning and no one loses their job...Are you f***ing kidding me?" Rapp looked at one senator and then the other. "Guilty or not, people should have lost their jobs. And I'm not just talking the CIA. I'm talking the FBI, Pentagon, National Security Council, White House, Capitol Hill...across the board. The entire 'cover your ass' culture you guys and your politically correct cronies have created needs to be turned on its ear."

The problem?  It's plenty good enough, but good fiction is still only fiction (Vince Flynn, Consent to Kill). 

And still no one has lost his job.  Oh—that last part is real.  Wouldn't want anyone to be confused or anything.

The Greatest Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

Bill Quick hosts a celebration of all things Heinlein.  His apparent favorite:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Go ye forth and read.  All of them.  I'll wait.