On the Infallibility of Engineers

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Saturday August 24, 2013 · 12:11 PM PDT

2013/08/24 · 12:11

There was a diary Friday about engineering problems on the S.F. Bay Bridge that some feel could lead to a collapse in a major earthquake. The author is not an engineer but was writing based on news articles he had read. He got some harsh responses from some engineers defending their brethren and their profession with such comments as "engineers ... are obligated by oath to serve the interest of the public." (Right, and doctors take an oath to "first, do no harm.)

I also am NOT an engineer and, like Will Rogers, "All I know is what I read in the papers" but there was an interesting, not unrelated, article in today's (8/24) Las Vegas Review-Journal about - hey, look, figure skating doodle bugs, who knew!

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 12:19 PM PDT

2012/08/27 · 12:19

Paul Ryan ... stood naked on top of the vice president’s desk in the Senate chamber

If that doesn't grab you, stop reading now.

Paul Ryan laughed. He stood naked on top of the vice president’s desk in the Senate chamber, scanning the crowd of sniveling politicians below him.

There's an image that will stay with you for a while.

The president. Ryan’s mind wandered as he thought about the only man who stood between him and absolute power. Mitt Romney was a weakling, he thought -- and not for the first time. He’s a man whose views can change. The thought filled Ryan with disgust. His own views were as solid as granite. They were the views of the only clear-thinking woman he had ever met: Ayn Rand.

What kind of "man" would disown such a woman?

Paul Ryan banged the gavel and brought the Senate to order. It quieted down quickly -- much faster than the House used to under the so-called leadership of that woman from California. The politicians recognized that they had entered the force field of a true, natural leader.

Michael Kinsley wrote this on the 21st but the Las Vegas R-J just carried it today. I could find no earlier reference to it on Kos. Read the full piece here.

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