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Jul. 26th, 2005 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandHmmm. I seem to have inadvertently reacquired my habit of sticking a pen through my ponytail for temporary storage and then, ten or fifteen minutes later, wondering where the hell my pen went.
In completely unrelated news, is anyone else at all concerned that the London police elected to call their shoot-to-kill anti-suicide-bomber program Operation Kratos? As in the ruthless, sociopathic, murderous protagonist of God of War? (OK, also apparently the servant of Zeus who chained Prometheus to that rock. But I'm suspicious.)
Actually, I'm always suspicious when police and military operations get gung-ho names. Desert Storm. Feh. It's a PR exercise, and it seems to me that all PR exercises of this nature have a high risk of the participants believing their own propaganda. If you called something Operation Lollipop it would sound ridiculous but there'd be less risk of the macho posturing obliterating the brain cells.
In completely unrelated news, is anyone else at all concerned that the London police elected to call their shoot-to-kill anti-suicide-bomber program Operation Kratos? As in the ruthless, sociopathic, murderous protagonist of God of War? (OK, also apparently the servant of Zeus who chained Prometheus to that rock. But I'm suspicious.)
Actually, I'm always suspicious when police and military operations get gung-ho names. Desert Storm. Feh. It's a PR exercise, and it seems to me that all PR exercises of this nature have a high risk of the participants believing their own propaganda. If you called something Operation Lollipop it would sound ridiculous but there'd be less risk of the macho posturing obliterating the brain cells.
