Serious, but Entertaining

So I've been reading all day about the various folks undergoing the nomination process today on Capitol Hill, generally attempting to stay informed as I like to do... when an otherwise serious discussion turns... intergalactic.

Two new Obama administration senior officials got sent up for nomination today: Philip Mudd, undersecretary-designate for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security; and Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary-designate for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department....

Campbell is, with Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, a co-founder of the Center for a New American Security, which is the most powerful global-affairs institution since the Trilateral Commission, except that one day it will come up with a plan for intergalactic exploration and conquest. I hear Andrew Exum is writing a paper about a population-centric-counterinsurgency approach for the Alpha Centaurions.

I'm such a nerd. Rather than follow up on the meat of the article, all I could focus on was how Spencer misspelled Alpha Centaurians. Art Bell is not impressed.

Given my own history of terrible grammar, I should just walk away. In the meantime, I wanted to highlight the written Q&A testimony of Ray Mabus (PDF) and Bob Work (PDF) who had their turn today. A webcast of the testimony is available here (have not seen this yet).

I thought the questions were more revealing than the answers in many cases.