"Indeed, its vaguely oriental essence can barely be expressed. It is yin-and-yang, knowing-not-knowing. It is knowing all about the thing without being culpable of knowing the thing itself."

(5/5)

Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes (1992)

"And so, there has developed, in Washington, a kind of knowing without being known to know, for which there is no word at all. It is a nonoperational, untraceable knowing, which can seldom be proven or disproven..."

(4/5)

"What did he know, and when did he know it?"

(3/5)

"When things foul up in a massive way; when The Washington Post, like God, is angry; when Committee Chairmen vie for jurisdiction of the hearings that will make them well known as the scourge of evildoing, then this is the knowing implied in the most portentous of capital questions:

(2/5)

Plane loses power it At least becomes a shitty glider instead of a rock.

My training for helo rides consisted entirely of the sentence: “it probably won’t go down, but if it does, don’t panic”

I kind of like the look of them? Better than the MH-60.

This is a purely aesthetic judgement, I don’t know shit about helicopters, other than I don’t enjoy flying in them.

IT of some sort.

Perhaps it engaged in combat with the Ooral Sea.

But seriously, I can easily imagine administration flunkies forcing shipyard workers to dress up like robots when the president visits.

Dude was having the time of his life

That and

Sean Connery’s first and only Disney film!

I have watched just this scene probably forty times.