So I was just listening to NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me like you do on a Sunday morning while running errands (3 down, four to go), and they had a story about these. They're called flying pasties, they're reusable, and (apparently) you can write messages that the TSA can read on them ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you say "Hey, you know, if you do this thing? This other bad thing might happen." And most of the world does their best Eddie Izzard and says, "No, surely not." And you just sit there feeling like Cassandra ( Read more... )

The Los Angeles Times reports that LAX is getting full body scanners.

::rolls eyes::

You know what makes me crankiest about this whole Chicken Little approach to security--to say nothing of the general public's willingness to go along with the insanity?

We already have a perfectly good technology that is at least as good at detecting explosives ( Read more... )