13 April 2012

Useless Fragment #55

It didn't take the House of Representatives long to realize that they shouldn't have jumped out of the plane without a parachute -- twelve one-hundredths of a second seems about right.

They immediately took up a resolution of condemnation, but the rushing wind made exercise of proper procedure difficult to impossible, and the whole business might have collapsed save for the realization by one of the subcommittee members that a quorum's worth of members were carrying cellphones with noise cancelling circuitry, and so proceedings continued in that venue by means of conference call -- briefly.

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