The fools laughed at me at the academy...

"Dear!" I said. "Come look at my latest invention!"

"The greatest electronic-political machine ever created! The Insinuator 9000! Look, you just feed in a complete description of your opponent, this little dohickey whirs, then this one bubbles, the Jacob's ladder climbs here, and then this highly trained gang of lemurs is interfaced as an output device, they all know how to type and the Insinuator raises the voltage here in Morse code fed directly into their pleasure centers... that's not important. Here! You can set this dial for believability, after calibrating for man-on-the-street, and it goes all the way up to CSICOP and down to 'religious fanatic with an electrical engineering degree'. Then just push this button and out comes the rumors that you need.... to ... defeat! them! utterly!"

"You're monologuing again, dear."

The fools laughed at me at the academy...

"Dear!" I said. "Come look at my latest invention!"

"The greatest electronic-political machine ever created! The Insinuator 9000! Look, you just feed in a complete description of your opponent, this little dohickey whirs, then this one bubbles, the Jacob's ladder climbs here, and then this highly trained gang of lemurs is interfaced as an output device, they all know how to type and the Insinuator raises the voltage here in Morse code fed directly into their pleasure centers... that's not important. Here! You can set this dial for believability, after calibrating for man-on-the-street, and it goes all the way up to CSICOP and down to 'religious fanatic with an electrical engineering degree'. Then just push this button and out comes the rumors that you need.... to ... defeat! them! utterly!"

"You're monologuing again, dear."