Rand Simberg wrote:

Umm, maybe you haven't realized it yet, but that was Rand's
April Fools post.

Pat's always been a little slow on the uptake, albeit amusingly
so...

I was buying it hook, line, and sinker until I got to the part where
he realized Mark Whittington has been right all along. :-)

About the only worse way he could have overplayed his hand was to
concede that Eric Chomko or Brad Guth had been right all along...

Jim Davis