BWA ha ha ha ha! Snort! You're killing me with this stuff.

Given the amount of election fraud going on all over the planet, surely nobody will mind if I vote for Lileks for US Senate in 2006, right?

HAR HAR! I've been claiming for quite a long time that outsourcing saves no money at all because you have to build in an entirely new layer of expensive U.S. executive types to manage the relationship and spin the (bad) results coming back. To that I can now add you must hire more lawyers.