A magazine article on PowerPoint claims that "all life is a presentation". Well, maybe for some of us. Sort of like saying everything in our lives is about salesmanship too, which maybe takes the dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest idea a little too literally. We know more, instinctually, than to merely "always be closing".
From New Scientist magazine:
The Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.
Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behavior among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
The proposals, from the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, date from 1994. The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organization that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.
Although the above is absurd and funny — there must be plenty more bio and chemical weapons programs the U.S. is engaged in that are illegal, and scary serious.
Politicians are masters of the intellectual disconnect. Here's a scary picture:
