DH came home from lunch with a bizarro rumor about Snowden being a virtual construct

[Hekate]

I because I am an old sci fi fan and should have seen this one coming. It's a classic Freudian wish-fulfillment fantasy: The man who will never be captured because he is not a flesh and blood human.

Did I mention that dh is "the old guy" at a young tech firm?

Let me know if you encounter this fantasy anywhere else.

Hekate

[randome]

1. Sometimes the camouflage units go on the fritz.

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[babylonsister]

2. As a matter of fact, just saw this at Ezra's blog...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/24/wonkbook-does-edward-snowden-even-exist/

Wonkbook: Does Edward Snowden even exist?

[KittyWampus]

4. Great read. Comment stolen from there > has anyone seen Eric Cantor & Snowden in same place?

[KittyWampus]

3. It is actually fairly decent outside the box thinking though. In the end, unless we are first person

witnesses- how would we know? And we could get even more philosophical and ask even if we WERE first hand witnesses… are we really so sure?

[Hekate]

7. I think this generation never heard of Bishop Berkeley...

nor Mearns' Corollary:

The Little Man Who Wasn't There

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...

When I came home last night at three
The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall
I couldn’t see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)

Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

by Hughes Mearns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Jesus age...stellar wind thin thread...

Nope, not a distraction.

But it tells me that they are getting ready to leave the hunt.

[Turbineguy]

6. "Sir, it's the Invisible Man."

"Well, tell him I can't see him!"

[Hekate]

8. Self delete -- duplicate

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