Justice Scalia and the Genetic Panopticon
I haven't always been that kind to Justice Scalia (or to Justice Scalia's hats), but I do think he's a very good writer, and so I'm glad to be able to quote him saying something I agree with. If you…
Homeland Insecurity
Man Tries to Blow Up Misspelled Sign, Criticizes Misspelled Bomb Instructions
Now here's a guy I can sympathize with. It's bad enough when a sign is misspelled. It's much worse when the misspelled sign is the sign for my state's Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, for God's sake, which gives out…
Lego Gun Incident Ends Better Than Pastry Gun Incident
Actually, the pastry-gun incident (see below) hasn't ended yet, but however that ends it will still be worse. The "New Development[] in Lego Gun Incident" reported by WGGB (Springfield, MA) yesterday was that the school decided it would not discipline…
Does Eric Holder Know?
Nope. He does not: Of course, neither did Alberto Gonzales, or if he did, he didn't recall: Now, I don't know whether it's worse to not know anything or to not recall anything. I mean, if you don't…
Naked TSA Protester’s Appeal to Be Heard Tuesday
As you may recall, John Brennan took off all his clothes last April at an airport checkpoint in Portland to protest being hassled by the TSA (they got a false positive on that swab test), and was then charged with…
White House Grants Senate a Glimpse of Legal Memo Re: Killing Americans
From yesterday's edition of The Hill: The Obama administration on Wednesday is expected to grant members of the Senate Judiciary Committee access to its legal justification for killing suspected terrorists who are U.S. citizens. Yep, after months of asking, the Committee…
TSA: Terrorist Source of Amusement
After years of puzzling over it, I think at last I understand the TSA’s strategy for dealing with terrorism: make them laugh so hard they’ll all have strokes or something. Yes, it has publicly sought crack security personnel by advertising…
Triangular Treats Banned Due to Risk of Sharp Corners
See, here’s yet another reason that it was so dumb to punish a kid for biting a pastry into the shape of a handgun: he could have just poked someone in the eye with the pastry in the first place….
ALTHOUGH THE TSA’S PANTS-BOMB DETECTION RATE LEAVES SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED
In fact, it was approximately zero percent, based on a recent test conducted at Newark Airport by the TSA's "Red Team": The secret inspector, a member of the TSA's special operations team, had a mock improvised explosive device in his pants…
OOH, LOOK WHAT THE HIGHLY COMPETENT TSA GENIUSES FOUND!
You can't get anything by these guys! On its blog (source of the picture), the TSA seemed to be giving itself a mild pat on the back for finding this: The contents of a checked bag at Indianapolis (IND) drew…