Is high speed rail our national boondoggle?

Jim: Are you sure?

Tony: Or a scoping study.

Jim: What's that?

Tony: It's the same thing, only thicker with graphs and diagrams.

Jim: That sounds good.

Tony: It's only going to tell us what we know – a very fast train won't work.

Jim: We won't know that until the report's finished.

Tony: We know that now.

Jim: Not officially, and they don't know that we know.

Tony: Who's 'they'?

Jim: The naysayers!

Tony: But they know we know they know we know.