BREAKING NEWS THAT REMINDED US OF "THUNDERBALL"

Right after the opening credits of  the Bond adventure Thunderball (1966), we're treated to a board meeting of that nefarious worldwide crime organization SPECTRE... the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.

            There's no benefits package at Spectre, no 401K and certainly no second chances... one of the Board members, judged an incompetent liar by unseen CEO Ernst Stavro Blofeld is simply fried in his seat like a Hot Pocket left too long in the microwave. The seat, along with its deceased, extra-crispy occupant lowers underground, then pops up again....empty, presumably ready for a new hire.

             We couldn't help thinking of this sequence as we watched the news of Gen. Flynn's resignation from the White House inner circle.....which in its collection of malicious, mean-spirited criminal connivers and incompetents, is every bit the equal of the Spectre boardroom.

            So we're thinking maybe Gen.Flynn should thank his lucky stars that he was allowed to leave with  his butt only symbolically fried.........