Scott,

       It is spooky how art foretells political actions. There have been two
recent references to the 25th Amendment on two TV series.(24 and West Wing) I
wonder if this portends something about Dubya or Cheney?

       I was born in Waxahachie and know one ever heard of it until the Super
Collder project! A little trivia is the news pretty boy, Stone Phillips, was
born there.

Bobby

> Here's a case of "art imitates politics:"
>
> John Cramer, a physicist at the UW, is also a successful science fiction
> author.  In a recent book, "Einstein's Bridge," Cramer takes us into a near
> future in which the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) is built near
> Waxahachie, TX.  In that future, humankind communicates with an alien race
> through a black hole, and that race tries to destroy them.  Two characters
> go back in time and save humanity from the invasion by blocking the SSC's
> creation.  Here's what Cramer's characters take credit for:
>
> George Bush Sr.'s selection of Dan Quayle as a running mate over Bob Dole
> (because the VP has become the executive office that drives scientific
> inquiry, and Quayle is a NASA-supporter, whereas Dole was a SSC man).
>
> (Ironically, the Bush-Dole administration actually takes care of Saddam
> Hussein long before 2003 in the "original future."  George Sr. writes the
> book "Boris, Saddam and I," exploring his apparently aggressive foreign
> policy in that future.)
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