Benny's job

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks, David, I kind of like that theory myself, DESPITE the fact that it's 
mine.  Again, the parallels, no matter how prescient to outright clairvoyant 
they are, with the U.S.'s "Operation Igloo White" on that Ho Chi Minh trail 
are uncanny (see Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the 
Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, from which I posted the relvant 
excerpt some time back).  And there's that "volunteer" thing, which, in the 
military, if nowhere else, need not mean "unpaid," and where else (except 
maybe in a posse, a militia,   or an ALLIGATOR PATROL) would you have armed 
"volunteers"? well, okay, Tennessee, but ... but those armbands, "in green 
lettering." The sheer  complication of the whole operation.  And thos 
"cocos," = "gooks"?  again, th elision of alligator with crocodile, very 
much of the nature of a slur.  Hm ... note that "some had turned 
cannibal"--North Vitnam vs. South Vietnam?  And so forth.  By the way, and 
no doubt against both my better judgment and my introverted character, I 
might just be in that Big Easy of yrs ca. Mardi Gras/Carnival/Fasching this 
year, will let you know ...
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