Fulfilled Expectations

I recently renewed my Illinois driver's license, and included with the materials was an explanation about the option to submit an application that complied with REAL ID, the federal standard for a secure identification. I've always considered REAL ID to be yet another intrusive part of the post-9/11 War on Terror theater, so I didn't bother with it.A few days later, it was … [Read more...] about Congress Disappoints Me: REAL ID edition

The good news is that the United States government is going to give me three years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection absolutely free.The bad news is that in March of 2014 the U.S. Government's Office of Personnel Management got hacked. The OPM cybersecurity team didn't detect the hacking until April of the following year, by which time the hackers had … [Read more...] about In Which the U.S. Government Gives Me Free Stuff

When I first downloaded a copy of the hacked database dump from the Ashley Madison adultery-oriented dating site, I naturally checked if anyone I know had been naughty. When that didn't pan out, I tried to think of something fun I could do with all that data.Then over at The Big Questions economist Steve Landsburg posted what he called "The Ashley Madison Test of College … [Read more...] about Biglaw According to Ashley Madison

Borderlands 2 is an awesome computer game. I had tons of fun. That is all. … [Read more...] about My Thoughts on Last Night’s Debate

Reason awards their February Nanny of the Month award to a Kansas legislator for banning fake pot. … [Read more...] about Next They’ll Ban Turning ‘Round and ‘Round Until You Get Dizzy