Headthunk.

This morning's bit of news is that the New York Times and CBS News believe that people are using wheelchairs to skip airport lines legally.
Now, neither the New York Times nor CBS nor these alleged cheaters interviewed me, but if they had, I would had had a bit of news for them ( Read more... )

I started this blog entry soon after returning from WFC, and then never got around to finishing it (this happens to a surprising number of my posts.) Since discussion on this point has heated up in the past few days, I figured I'd finish it up.

( Cut for those who can't stand to read anything more about airport security. )

Because apparently something is up with the universe today, Hugo award winning fan writer and passport carrying British citizen has just been denied entrance into the U.S. Here's her Twitter feed. I expect she'll be updating shortly.

(And all of you now know exactly as much as I know. Ms. Morgan and I have never met, and she has no idea who I am

Student claims school spied on him through a webcam in a school-issued laptop.Several thoughts ( Read more... )

Hiding explosives in the bags of Irish passengers.

Major quotes:Slovak officials on Wednesday blamed ''a silly and unprofessional mistake'' for a failed airport security test that led to a man unwittingly carrying hidden explosives in his bag aboard a flight to Dublin ( Read more... )

Every once in a while I like reading about how the other 1% lives, and ABC News/TPM Muckraker has kindly allowed me to do so in a recent interview with Texas billionaire Allen Sanford, currently under investigation by the SEC for overseeing a Ponzi schemes. Because billionaires note things like this:"I always lived very frugally. I flew around on ( Read more... )

technoshaman linked to this. Usually, I'd say thank you for the link, but I can't this time, because it's a disturbing story.

I've been mulling around the topic of airport security in my mind over the last week or so, almost getting ready to post something, and then realizing that grrm (whose three posts on the subject are must reads) had already done a better ( Read more... )

Dear President Bush:

Now that you've had a moment or two to settle into your second term and recover from all of those massively expensive second inauguration parties (and I gotta tell you, man, I admire people that can spend so much for entertainment; at the last party I went to, we had some cheap wine and beer and moved little bendy people ( Read more... )

I spent most of this week in New Orleans at an academic conference/trade show/opportunity for Yahoo! to serve Starbucks coffee, thus creating a synergy of American marketing (no, really). I'm too exhausted to write up a coherent saga here, so here's the highlights, more or less out of order:

1) People in airport shuttles are scary, part I: So I ( Read more... )

The FBI has apparently determined that I am a security threat. Some of you may be called as references as I am further checked.

I now await their judgement in Jacksonville.

I blame the Internet, really.