Report: Bin Laden Wore a Cowboy Hat to “Avoid Detection From Above”
This cannot have been made up.
Government
Oregon Designates Official State Microbe
Beating Hawaii and Wisconsin to this important milestone.
Last Day to Submit a Public Comment on TSA Screening [Updated]
Technically, you can "submit a public comment" about these jokers anytime you want, and you should, but (as TSA News has been pointing out for a while), today is yesterday was the last day to submit one officially as part of…
Three Things Dick Nixon Enjoyed
Bowling: Cheating! Wiretapping: Some things never seem to go out of style.
TSA Agent Tells 15-Year-Old Girl She’s Not Dressed Appropriately
"You're only 15—cover yourself," the man said to the 15-year-old girl. I suppose a father might say that to his daughter, but here the father is rightfully pissed off because the man who said it was a TSA agent at LAX. Teenage…
Court to DOJ: About That Meta-Data You Said You Didn’t Have … [Update II]
The Southern District of Florida Blog reports that the Government has some 'splaining to do in a case pending there, given the recent NSA data-trawling revelations. The defendants are charged with a string of armored-car robberies. As part of its investigation, the Government…
TSA Has Objected to Lightsabers Before
After my post about the TSA's concern over Peter Mayhew's simulated fictional weaponry ("TSA Questions Chewbacca's Lightsaber," June 10), I heard from Patrick Smith, a professional pilot and author of (among other things) the long-running column Ask the Pilot at Salon.com…
TSA Questions Chewbacca’s Lightsaber
Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca, is almost 7' 3" tall, and because of his size (and possibly his age) he has some trouble getting around. He walks with a cane (it's designed to look like a "lightsaber") and…
Official State Crap Update: Connecticut Punts the Wright Brothers
Here's the problem with trying to maintain a comprehensive list of the dumb things legislatures do: they keep doing them. It was just a few days ago that I posted "Official State Crap: Connecticut," the most recent in the remarkably…
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…