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Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Fifth Best

NASA ranked "fifth best" place to work in the US government. No direction, no leadership, programs go nowhere or get canned. Sounds like utopia!
Posted by Frederick Paul Kiesche III at 12:04
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