As the closed-door security committee meeting progressed, Laurie tried hard not to fall asleep. The halls of power were, unfortunately, often filled with morons, and for some reason the morons typically seemed to control the agenda. I suppose the business world is much the same, she thought, though it was not much consolation. Meetings were, almost by definition, the product of the indecisive mind, and so they were usually run, and often populated, by indecisive people.