It is always a good plan to ask for the name of the person giving you the information. If it were dead, as of 15 minutes ago, do you think the bottom-tier flunky answering the phone in some obscure congressman’s office would know about it that fast? I’m not saying it isn’t dead, I’m saying it is always a good plan to verify.
If your own mother says it’s so, check it out.
Oh yes. Of course. These are the ever-important youngsters you see on the metro or in restaurants, wearing their access badges and suits hours after work and talking at MAX VOLUME about how important and all knowing they are.
Of course they know. </sarcasm>