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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Good question

Some of my co-workers were talking about the troubles of the US auto industry this morning. The appeal for Federal aid came up and, inevitably, how the CEO’s of the Big Three sent the wrong message by flying to DC in their corporate jets. Apparently the argument is that they need the jets for security reasons, which led to the question:

“Who is going to shoot them? They are not worth anything.”