Out just in time for T3: Robolobster! -- and it turns red after it self-destructs, turning the water around it into a giant boiling cauldron of toxi-nuke flavor.
And let us never forget the "Lect'ical Lobster's" intellectual predecessor: the CIA's Cold War state-of-the-art (of the time) idea of implanting a listening device in a cat's whatever and releasing Double-O Fluffy into the Kremlin to prowl around meetings. (Think Goldfinger's Persian.)
Alas, for the whole plane to work the cat had to be brianwashed and the process took it's toll on Snowball. As legend has it the prototype test cat was taken to Central Park for some field experiemnts and either 1) lost, stolen or strayed away forever, or his control agent Maxwell Smart inadvertantly backed over the Six Million Dollar Cat, bringing the top secret pet project to a premature conclusion. But not all was lost.
The experience has since served as the benchmark example of the natural tension between Yankee ingenuity, American workmanship and government eptitude.
That memory in mind, we may want to follow the progess of the Ruddy Robolob, Spy Crustacean.
Jawaharal Nehru had it figured. John R. MacArthur (via the Providence Journal and commondreams.org) examines what the history of British colonialism has taught us about the motives of smug "liberators."
Dislike having religion crammed down your throat? Ready yourself for a visit from the Secret Service.
And let us never forget the "Lect'ical Lobster's" intellectual predecessor: the CIA's Cold War state-of-the-art (of the time) idea of implanting a listening device in a cat's whatever and releasing Double-O Fluffy into the Kremlin to prowl around meetings. (Think Goldfinger's Persian.)
Alas, for the whole plane to work the cat had to be brianwashed and the process took it's toll on Snowball. As legend has it the prototype test cat was taken to Central Park for some field experiemnts and either 1) lost, stolen or strayed away forever, or his control agent Maxwell Smart inadvertantly backed over the Six Million Dollar Cat, bringing the top secret pet project to a premature conclusion. But not all was lost.
The experience has since served as the benchmark example of the natural tension between Yankee ingenuity, American workmanship and government eptitude.
That memory in mind, we may want to follow the progess of the Ruddy Robolob, Spy Crustacean.
Jawaharal Nehru had it figured. John R. MacArthur (via the Providence Journal and commondreams.org) examines what the history of British colonialism has taught us about the motives of smug "liberators."
"They shoot and kill and destroy only for the good of the people shot down," Nehru wrote in 1934. "The novel feature of the modern type of imperialism is its attempt to hide its terrorism and exploitation behind pious phrases about 'trusteeship' and the 'good of the masses' and the 'training of backward peoples in self-government.' " [And there's no money in it, either.]He also offers some observations about the, ah, shortgevity of occupiers.
The lesson of all this is that you cannot indefinitely rule an entire people against its will, no matter how many press releases you issue promoting "freedom."There is some reason to think, then, that the neocons have read history in the same way they read the intelligence reports, seizing on what was most useful and discarding the truth.
Dislike having religion crammed down your throat? Ready yourself for a visit from the Secret Service.
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