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.
Not into fantasy football? Me either. But now you can play Fantasy Congress. You pick a team of four Senators and 12 Representatives, and you get points when your selected Members of Congress screw us all over. “In this nightmare Congress, much as in the real one, you ‘win’ by introducing laws and getting them passed,” writes Cato Institute executive vice president David Boaz. The nightmare is that someone’s actually encouraging Congress to pass laws.
Chicago, Ill., mayor Richard Daley wants to declare all of Chicago a “no-fly zone” after a general aviation accident in New York City earlier this month killed a New York Yankees pitcher and his flight instructor. Phil Boyer at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association points out exactly how stupid this is. “Using the ‘logic’ you apply to general aviation aircraft, you’re forced to conclude that newspapers, winter coats, cell phones, backpacks, trucks, and boats all pose much greater risks to the public,” he wrote. (Hat tip)
The National Security Agency is always hiring. But they’re having trouble getting qualified candidates. So, like the Central Intelligence Agency before them, they’ve turned to television advertising. On “Lost” and “CSI.” “It was the demographic we were looking for,” an NSA spokesman told the Baltimore Sun. Stupid television-watching couch potatoes are a demographic? I want to see those stats.
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J. Bruno
Oct 26, 2006
Right, the most intelligent people in the country… that haven’t been hired by Google, Microsoft, HP, or just about any company offering four times the salary and a tenth the bureaucracy.
Michael Hampton
Oct 26, 2006
Not to mention working for the NSA can really restrict your social life. Consider the following first-date scenario:
Her: So what do you do?
You: I’m an analyst for the Department of Defense.
Her: What?
You: I… uh…
Fortunately, the NSA has a vast array of social clubs to ensure that nothing like this ever happens and that you are most likely to date someone with the proper security clearance…
GZLFB
Oct 27, 2006
Here’s some hilarity:
Rat Line.
GZLFB
Oct 27, 2006
Oh and the NSA’s founding and any activity or existence and maintanance is treason and constitutionally criminal.
Inhuman.
GZLFB(.com)
local
Oct 27, 2006
“Fortunately, the NSA has a vast array of social clubs to ensure that nothing like this ever happens and that you are most likely to date someone with the proper security clearance…”
Yeah, but “social clubs” there is kind of an oxymoron… The extraverts at NSA are the ones who look at your shoes, not their own.
Michael Hampton
Oct 28, 2006
Local, I remember that joke. It’s pretty old.
Then again, consider who they’re targeting these commercials to…
local
Oct 28, 2006
It may be an old joke, but it’s still very applicable. It still runs rampant amongst the younger generation of employees who realize the place is full of freaks from the “no such agency” days.