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July 18, 2010 - 6:54 am - by Richard Fernandez
Scythianeedle
2010-07-18 13:39:06

Anyone reading here who has seen a few episodes of “Yes, Minister” or “Yes, Prime Minister” will slowly shake head in remembering when the realization sank in that the show was merely a brutally honest depiction of how the British Civil Service works.

Just like the comic strip “Dilbert” or going back a few decades, the book “The Peter Principle.”

I thought they were great entertainment at first, then as I spent a decade caroming among the cubicled mazes of Silicon Valley manufacturers, I realized that the authors of those two items were probably sobbing in their Jack Daniels somewhere.

I’m telling you, the stench from the system running this country doesn’t wash out. You have to wash your clothes, THEN burn’em.