I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

