""In the current Leap Second Debate, there are rational arguments, focused on practical considerations, and there is a certain unspoken unease, emerging from the symbolic substrata of the issues involved," [Rev. Paul Gabor, astrophysicist and vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona] writes, seemingly on behalf of those unspeaking."
Forget the provenance-- it seems a valid point.
The tech whining sounds a bit lame.