I wondered aloud here over the weekend whether the strategic analyst Bates
Gill was a pod-people version of the great software mogul. This brought in
a number of responses along the following lines: “Derb–Jerry Kohn is our
Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate here in Illinois. With Alan Keyes no
more plausible a candidate, he just might get some votes. Whether he’s a
pod person, however, is open to debate.”