"I'm not dead yet"

[scarfman]

I'm certain I heard or saw on broadcast news one recent morning that that was the day the Military Commissions Act was to be signed by the President into law, but I haven't heard anything more. Was it just not suffficiently newsworthy that he signed it? Was it not sufficiently newsworthy that he didn't sign it (I really don't think he's so clever or devious, or un-self-serving, but I have entertained the notion that George would walk up to the podium, pick up the pen, then look up at the gathered houses of Congress and go, "Punk'd!" and berate them for spinelessness and betrayal of their trust*)? Or am I all wrong, and the signing date is still nigh? kthx

* Don't mind me, I'm channelling Claudius the God.

Comments

[billfl.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like the Fizzbin theory of governmental operations, isn't it?

[(Anonymous)]

I am unfamiliar with that theory. Could you elaborate?

[billfl.livejournal.com]

"Fizzbin" was a card game that Kirk made up on an episode of Star Trek. It's rules were complex and confusing, which gave Kirk & company time to overpower their guards and escape.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

As it happens, this is similar to the way Kirk used to program computers.