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Ladies and Gentleman, I present unto you....the 21st century

Started by Cain, January 08, 2012, 12:57:56 PM

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Cain

January 08, 2012, 12:57:56 PM
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/mercenary0607-3

QuoteWhen Zeke had the cell-phone conversation with his handlers in the restaurant, I knew that his story had only two possible outcomes, and that both were monstrous. If Larry and Kyle were real, then Zeke was an assassin in the employ of a secret governmental agency that had seen fit to give him a job at a nuclear plant just as he was starting to go crazy with guilt and shame. If they weren't real, then Zeke was not just a liar; he was a liar who was willing to engage in complicated three-way public conversations with people who didn't exist. He was a liar with an alias and fake passports, a liar who maintained extensive stocks of boarding passes and hotel-room keys, a liar who packed a duffel bag and kept it in his house in order to further the fiction that his next mission was one phone call away. He was a liar who conflated his lies with threats so that skepticism would be conflated with fear. He was a deranged liar, and he was the security manager of a nuclear plant on Lake Michigan.

I think this sums up everything I love about this brave new world we are living in.

Scribbly

#1
January 08, 2012, 02:42:22 PM
That... was amazing.  :eek:
I had an existential crisis and all I got was this stupid gender.

East Coast Hustle

#2
January 08, 2012, 08:46:18 PM
:lulz:

I know people like the guy that story is written about, but none of them have ever peddled such obvious bullshit so effectively.
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Juana

#3
January 08, 2012, 10:43:34 PM
Holy shit, :lulz: HE'S FROM TULARE! That's less than an hour from here. Christ. And seriously, this sounds like it could almost be a Bourne novel.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#4
January 09, 2012, 01:22:43 AM
AGSFCHHHHH god whatever, just.

fucking kill us all

oh wait
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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