On the downtown Q platform at Union Square tonight, I Saw Something: an unattended grocery bag that looked rather boxy. I asked whether anyone present owned it, and no one did. I figured it was most likely just forgotten groceries, but what the hey, with all those ads pleading with us, "If you see something, say something," I figured I'd call it in ( Read more... )

Today's post on airport security prompts me to republish an item or two I posted elsewhere in 2004.

Of Cats and G-Men
Sept. 24, 2004

I take homeland security very seriously--as well I should, since I go to school across the street from the Empire State Building. Unfortunately, my government does not take homeland security very seriously.

Example: ( Read more... )

The New York Times has published, on its website at least, a good piece on airport security. If you are under the impression that any of the security measures at U.S. airports exist for good reason or do any good, you should read it.

9/11 was possible because -- contrary to the courage appropriate to a free people -- Americans had been taught to ( Read more... )