Coincidence? I Dare Not Speculate
Two seemingly unrelated events:
- Less than a week ago, physicist Stephen Hawking maybe things can escape from black holes after all.
- Today, my Guinness bar towel arrives, over a year after I completed the survey for which I should have gotten it and long after "Guinness Bar Towel" became a Fark punchline:

Perhaps I have discovered the inspiration for Hawking's sudden reversal.
Meanwhile, read this satire:
Bush Labels Stephen Hawking a Flip-Flopper. The same joke crossed my mind, but I am too late to capitalize on't.