Ahhh...more proof that people aren't smarter in the real world.

It's often a discussion between several of my friends and I, do things suddenly change when you leave school and are in the real world? Are companies and businesses actually run by people who know what they are doing? More and more, I come to find that the answer really is no -- there is probably something of around 5% of the people in the workforce who a) know what they doing, b) have the motivation to do what they do, c) have the motivation to do what needs to be done to be promoted, and d) also have ethics.

Now, I find that at least in government, even in some of the most important agencies, that idea is true...more to the fact, mismanagement and idiocy are pervasive everywhere, not just academics:

Lawyer Criticizes Top FBI Officials (nytimes) - byline David Johnston
Just for summary for those that don't want to register, Stephen M. Kohn, a lawyer, interviewed many of the leaders of the FBI as part of a suit of one of his clients. What he found has led him to write to three senators (Spector, Grassley, and Leahy) that "the F.B.I.'s top counterterrorism officials said in sworn depositions that they did not know the relationship between Al Qaeda and Jamal Islamia, a South Asia offshoot of the terror network. Nor were they aware of the linkage between Osama bin Laden and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a spiritual adviser to Mr. bin Laden with whom he had been closely associated since the 1980's."

and "the F.B.I. had sought to fill its managerial ranks with senior agents who were regarded as strong leaders and reserved specialized counterterrorism training primarily for agents and analysts further down the career ladder" I don't know how you could be a leader with no expertise," Mr. Curran is quoted as saying. "The people you are supervising and coming in contact with would know within 24 hours that you don't know what the hell you're talking about. So how are you going to lead and address people and have them follow you if you don't have a clue what's going on?"

Great, just great.

Quick cooking question to my flist

Hey guys...so I've got some chicken and some key limes...any suggestions? I was just going to do the juice as a marinade but now I'm wondering if I have any decent spices to go with...and how baking it w/ actual lime slices and green peppers would turn out (sadly no onions other than dried). Most of my spices are more basic or italian.

Anything??

Update on Mukhtaran Bibi

For those you who have been following the story, Kristof had encouraging news today. Mukhtaran Bibi has been freed finally from her "stay" with the Pakistani government and returned to her home village. While President Musharraf reports that she has been removed from the countries blacklist forbidding her travel, her passport was confiscated before she was freed.

And what does President Musharraf have to say about all this?
Mr. Musharraf admitted to reporters on Friday that he had ordered Ms. Mukhtaran placed on the blacklist. And although Pakistan had claimed that Ms. Mukhtaran had decided on her own not to go to the U.S. because her mother was sick (actually, she wasn't), the president in effect acknowledged that that was one more lie. "She was told not to go" to the U.S., Mr. Musharraf said, according to The Associated Press.

"I don't want to project a bad image of Pakistan." he explained.