perfidy

I'm sure you've heard the old saw about not starting fights with people who buy ink by the barrel?

Addendum: Don't ever piss off Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Tom Perkins.

Quick chronology (sans copious and specific links, since anyone who cares already knows, anyone who doesn't know probably doesn't care, and really, this is all about the juvenile punch line):

• HP's board was considering changing leadership
• Not all members were on board with doing so
• The board got leaky with the press
• George Keyworth was fingered & drummed out as a board member
• Tom Perkins didn't like seeing his friend pilloried (even though his friend {ahem} was the source of the leaks)
• Perkins pitched a bitch, raised holy-hell, and got a Congressional hearing scheduled
• Now Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP's board, stands a chance, however slight, of a career change into the "license plate stamping industry"

Coincidence? You decide. I guess it could be.

But, dig this little-known fact - he also caused her to lose some of her good looks and most of her hair, as evidenced by this pictorial chronology:

Coincidence? I'd like you to believe I think that's stretching it.

[wik] Speaking of "stretching it", I mashed all those pictures so they'd fit. The last one is distorted such that it's worse looking than the one in the WaPo story, and that's unintentional. So I added a link to the pop-up, full size picture, which is unfortunately, like the mashed version, less than flattering. Also unintentional - she was quite the looker at one time, anti-glamour shots notwithstanding, and Congressional hearings are surely a complete pain in the ass. I blame Tom Perkins.