[ClearCase_guy]

One of my favorite memories from "Atlas Shrugged" is when the electric locomotive (only one around at the time) isn't in running condition. Important Washington VIP Kip Chalmers needs to get to an important meeting on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. To get there, he needs the train to go through an extremely long tunnel.

The railroad staff patiently explain that taking a coal-burning locomotive through a 20-mile-long tunnel is a suicide mission.

Chalmers basically pulls a "Do you know who am I????" on them and a crew of drunks is found to drive the train. Everyone dies. The train stops halfway through the tunnel.

And an Army munitions train coming the other way on the tracks collides with it a few hours later and destroys the entire 20-mile tunnel -- the only path through the Rocky Mountains that was left in the country.

That's Washington. The Big Shots know how smart and important they are -- how come you don't??

[El Cid]

Re 14: I feel sorry for the drunks.