Going through airport security is such a pain these days. They're still taking tubes of toothpaste, bottles of water, and anything else over three ounces away from passengers, and they're still letting guns and bomb-making components pass right through.
Something strange happened over the weekend. A story I wrote over eight months ago about Google's quiet cooperation with the U.S. intelligence community suddenly got picked up all over the Internet. While I'd like to comment individually at all of the sites which have picked up the story, that would unfortunately be far too time-consuming. Even linking to them all would take too long at this point. So please consider this your response.
Exposing flaws in airport security by talking about them will get you watched closely by government agents. Hi, guys. Creating a compelling demonstration of just how stupid the federal government is, though, will get you a less-than-friendly visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, followed by a predawn raid the next day.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings notes that college graduates have an unemployment rate of 2% as compared to an overall unemployment rate of 4.6%. This, I guess, is not tolerable.
New York, New York. It's a wonderful town. Unless your piece of it gets targeted for eminent domain.
"This is your final boarding call for Al Kyder and Terry Wrist." If you really are an Al-Qaeda terrorist, a satirical television series, or Robert Johnson, getting past the no-fly list and the security checkpoint could be as simple as, well, making up a name and printing your own boarding pass.
Homeland Stupidity was unavailable for several hours Thursday night due to an unexpected failure of our DNS provider.
In the course of my reporting, I get far more stories than I have time to do anything about. Here are three of the silliest things I've heard all week.
The Transportation Security Administration wants to move forward with its plan to issue "secure" identification cards to airport, railway and maritime workers, even though a test of the system revealed significant problems with its security and general operation, without fixing the problems first.
It seems those surveillance cameras that are being installed all over the country as part of the so-called "war on terror" are being diverted to a different war: the so-called "war on drugs." In Dillingham, Alaska, which has one public surveillance camera for every 30 residents, authorities last week broke up a marijuana grow operation and arrested ten men on various drug charges.
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