HUMOR IN UNIFORM
This New York Times article titled "Inside the Black Budget" reads like an April Fool's joke, only it isn't. Here's why:
" Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Grim reapers. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. Moons. Stars. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws.
No, this is not the fantasy world of a 12-year-old boy.
It is, according to a new book, part of the hidden reality behind the Pentagon’s classified, or “black,” budget that delivers billions of dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors. The book offers a glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens — patches — the kind worn on military uniforms..."
It gets better:
"One patch shows a space alien with huge eyes holding a stealth bomber near its mouth. “To Serve Man” reads the text above, a reference to a classic “Twilight Zone” episode in which man is the entree, not the customer. “Gustatus Similis Pullus” reads the caption below, dog Latin for “Tastes Like Chicken.”
Military officials and experts said the patches are real if often unofficial efforts at building team spirit.
The classified budget of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly doubled in the Bush years, to $32 billion.
That is more than the combined budgets of the Food and Drug Administration, the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Those billions have expanded a secret world of advanced science and technology in which military units and federal contractors push back the frontiers of warfare. In the past, such handiwork has produced some of the most advanced jets, weapons and spy satellites, as well as notorious boondoggles."
The piece reads like a template to the Da Vinci code, updated for modern times.
It shows that boys will be boys, wherever they are, and whenever they are in chronological age.
I've already Amazoned my copy of the book.
No fooling.
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Posted by: Steven | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 at 02:23 PM
“To Serve Man” reads the text above, a reference to a classic “Twilight Zone” episode in which man is the entree, not the customer.
The original source is Stanley Schmidt's SF short story with the same name.
Posted by: Alex Tolley | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 at 03:40 PM