After Gormogon University is done teaching the media about World War II and giving the current crop of government leaders a civics lesson, we plan on hosting a seminar on something called “Organizational Conflict of Interest” (OCI, for short) for the current Congress. Now, those of us who do federal contracting should recognize this term immediately (if not, I’ll offer a 10% discount on the seminar and you can sit in with our congressmen). Simply put, if you have a vested interest in some effort, say maybe a automobile distribution plant, you cannot – well, maybe should not is a better term – have the means of controlling the outcome to maintain one’s integrity. Maybe it is this last term that I’m being naïve about with regards to our Congress. Take a minute and read this opinion piece in the WSJ (hat tip: GorT, Sr.) then return.

“As Mr. Gural put it, Mr. Frank was “just doing what any other Congressman would do” in looking out for the interests of his constituents. And that’s the problem with industrial policy and government control of American business. In Washington, every Member of Congress now thinks he’s a czar who can call ol’ Fritz and tell him how to make cars.”

It’s OCI plain and simple and it’s only going to get worse as the government meddles in more and more industries.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.