Another quotable

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Yesterday, agrumer and I spent some time chatting with tnh and pnh at the Tor offices (mostly in lieu of actually working on NYRSF, but there will be time next week to catch up on the work list). Patrick mentioned that Kevin Drum had just quoted Teresa's "most quotable line of all time":

I deeply resent the way this administration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist.

I was doubly amused, then, to run across this summation in a post on Mark Kleiman's The Reality-Based Community group blog . In a discussion of how badly overblown the plot to blow up ten airplanes was, and how the Cheney maladministration seems to have once again burned intelligence sources and pressured the Brits to rush the arrests, probably ruining the chances of actually getting convictions in favor of a short-term advantage in driving Ned Lamont out of the news cycle, James Wimberley says this:

There are basically two theories of history: conspiracy and cock-up. The Bush administration combines them so well that in any given case, it's hard to decide.