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.
That... was amazing. :eek:
:lulz:
I know people like the guy that story is written about, but none of them have ever peddled such obvious bullshit so effectively.
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.
AGSFCHHHHH god whatever, just.
fucking kill us all
oh wait