[Lone Gunman]

The tribal wisdom of the Lakota Sioux, passed on from generation to
> > generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,
> > the best strategy is to dismount."
> >
> > However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more
> > advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
> >
> > 1. Buying a stronger whip.
> >
> > 2. Changing riders.
> >
> > 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
> >
> > 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride
> > dead horses.
> >
> > 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
> >
> > 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
> >
> > 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
> >
> > 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
> >
> > 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead
> > horse's performance.
> >
> > 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve
> > the dead horse's performance.
> >
> > 11. Declaring that the dead horse does not have to be fed, costs less,
> > has lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to
> > the bottom line of the economy than do other horses.
> >
> > 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
> >
> > And of course...
> >
> > 13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.