Let's start the week with one of the few, the proud,
the elite: a science fiction writer who can genuinely outdo
the aberrant weirdness in contemporary headlines.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20041018/uqbaristan-f.shtml
"Colonel Ariadne Levy-Quan was the head of our outfit, a former tankbusting A-10 pilot who went on to Thunderbird MBA and a lucrative tour on Madison Avenue selling ballistic missiles and Botox. Following a well-published tenure as the Riefenstahl Professor of Communications Studies at Pepperdine in Malibu, teaching free market propaganda techniques to Randian young surfers, she was recruited back into public service to help architect the administration's global media program–resulting in the creation of our unit, Task Force Loki, the government's interdisciplinary SWAT team in the global culture war. Domestic psyops was Colonel Quan's particular specialty. She had freaks like us to handle the offshore jobs."
