In what will probably be the first of many, this short article keeps you up to date on happenings from previous homeland stupidity postings.

• Last month I let you know that Sen. Bill Frist is under investigation for insider trading. He says he didn’t do it, of course, claiming all of the HCA stock he owned was in a blind trust and he knew nothing about it. Turns out he did. His “blind” trust regularly reported to both him and the Senate when it bought or sold HCA stock.
• Back in August, I told you about the FCC’s plan to apply CALEA to interconnected VoIP providers. Well, the order also seems to apply to Internet service providers carrying data traffic, which the feds want to snoop, too. It took a while, but universities finally noticed and are raising hell about the billions of dollars it will cost to upgrade their bits of the Internet for on-demand surveillance. Not to mention it’s outside the FCC’s authority.
• A couple of weeks ago I let you know about the government’s abuse of the All Writs Act to do real-time surveillance of people’s locations using their cell phones. Now another federal judge has condemned the practice, calling it “almost perverse.”
• The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports show that drug arrests are skyrocketing, I let you know last week. This week some more details have emerged. It turns out that women are making up an increased share of prison populations, primarily due to arrests for drug possession.