Yup, Pretty Sure I Got Hoodwinked

Upon further investigation (of his other writings), it indeed looks like Jimmy's posts were some form of meta-sarcasm with which, until now, I hadn't, unfortunately, been introduced. Oops.

At least, that's what I hope.

Examples:

• Government Enterprise Architecture is a big fat joke! in which he ponders, "Maybe someone there should seriously consider reading the agile manifesto."
• The obnoxious clown picture in the original post may have been an attempt to tag the post as "humor."
• Outstanding Questions on Mainframes and Open Source in which he queries, "Does Ruby run on Z/OS? If not, anyone game to work with me to port it? Hopefully, if we port it, the folks in the media will tell the story of how open source can also be created by folks who work in large enterprises and not just software vendors."
• The aforementioned The Five Rules of Propoganda in which he lays the context for a sarcastic propoganda post.

UPDATE: My hope was quenched. Quoth the Thought Leader:

Many folks haven't figured out that I too am a fan of Ruby. The problem I think the community has is when folks separate what they like from what they will "recommend" and push for the enterprise. In talking with other architects in corporate America, they too have came to the same conclusion. It doesn't matter if you feel any perspective I state is valid or not, what matters is that others may be thinking the same thing and it is in the best interest of the community to have canned answers to them. Oh by the way, don't get it twisted and think that every single opinion is my own because that would be highly inaccurate...

I don't really buy the premise that I need to be spending my free time answering questions that are meaningless to me, but at least we know his motivation's clean... ish.