Quote of the Week

Actually, this quote from last week, but I had to put down before I completely forgot it. It's from the government report on mismanagement at the Bureau of Minerals Management. The BMM is supposed to oversee the oil and gas companies-make sure they're complying with regulations-that sort of thing. Instead, the women who worked there were taking gifts, partying and having sex with the guys who worked for Hess, Chevron and other companies. And this is a quote from the report "If you are having sexual relations with the persons which are supposed to be overseeing, you are, by definition, not keeping them at arm's length".

I love that quote. It's dry, factual and witty, all at the same time. I want to meet the person who wrote it and thank him or her for putting this into a government document. H.L. Mencken himself would love this sentence. Thank you, anonymous report writer, for this sentence-I've been quoting it for a week now-it's a classic.