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I hope you'll forgive me, but this doesn't strike me as a completely ridiculous idea. Here's what I see:

He put in his resignation.
He gave/got 2 weeks' notice.
They are going to spend those two weeks going over his actions during Katrina in sordid detail. This guy has made some of the worst mistakes of the current administration, which takes doing. Many of those mistakes are obvious even to us armchair quarterbacks, but any competent folks left in FEMA are going to want to know about all of them. Imagine a couple of years down the line screwing up during a disaster, and it coming out that Brown made the same mistake in 2005--and we didn't know, because we didn't force him to stick around and "download." Avoiding his subtler mistakes in the future strikes me as worth paying him 2 extra weeks' salary.

Of course, given the current administration, anyone who actually tries to use the information from his "downloading" will probably get fired for competence.

Speaking of the poet of Empire, I found this one yesterday:

The Old Issue

He shall break his judges if they cross his word;
He shall rule above the Law calling on the Lord.

He shall peep and mutter; and the night shall bring
Watchers 'neath our window, lest we mock the King -—

Wow. You know, I've read some of Anne Rice's stuff and enjoyed it (not for a while--she was never one of my favorites, but to each their own). This is indeed scary. You should never get so caught up in your relationship with your character that you forget about the readers' relationships with him. And you should never forget that if you want readers, opinions other than your own matter.

Most importantly, you should never forget the purpose of paragraph breaks.

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