There’s so much homeland stupidity I can barely keep up anymore! Here’s the latest from around the country.

• Sean Timoney, 25, the son of Miami police chief John Timoney, former New York Police Department first deputy commissioner, was arrested Tuesday in Spring Valley, in upstate New York, for attempting to purchase $450,000 worth of marijuana. Dad’s really pissed off.
• O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, (UDV) an obscure religion I’ve never heard of, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow them to import hosaca tea from Brazil. The tea is on a list of hallucinogenic substances banned by the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, but the church uses it as a sacrament. Yet more victims of the misguided War on Drugs.
• Tom DeLay, R D-Texas, said Thursday that Congress’ runaway federal spending in recent years should be blamed on the Iraq war and on the Democrats. But Republicans have had control of Congress for the last ten years. DeLay went on to defend some Texas pork-barrel legislation. Obviously DeLay is a Democrat.
• Those traffic cameras that take a picture of drivers running red lights are really causing trouble. They’ve gone up in Washington, D.C., Fort Collins, Colo., and Philadelphia, Pa., all of which have seen an increase in accidents at intersections where the cameras are installed. Officials are calling this a good thing.
• Police in Allen, Texas, got off scot-free for killing a man over an unpaid seat belt ticket. They had doused him with pepper spray and held him to the ground until he asphyxiated. He spent two weeks in a coma until he finally died. A grand jury said that because the man was resisting arrest, police were perfectly justified in killing him. Over a seat belt violation.