I was hopeful of seeing an imitation of Metternich and Tallyrand at the Congress of Vienna but  wound up instead with an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly featuring the Great  Guildersleeve as guest star.

Cordwell, I observed, has one thing in common with Thomas Jefferson: the inability to speak coherently in public.

There the resemblance ends.

Is it just me, or is the GM obviously dissembling in his rather circuitous answers to very simple questions?

He acts like a guilty man being questioned under oath who is afraid to perjure himself.

And what is he doing instructing the BOD, who he obviously considers his intellectual inferiors, to make a motion and vote on something?