Unclear on the Concept

This happened back in April, but it's worth telling, because you just can't make up this kind of stupidity. At Los Angeles International Airport, employees of the Transportation Security Administration discovered that passenger Daniel Brown was on the no-fly list, so they grabbed him before he boarded his plane and interrogated him, despite the fact that he was a uniformed … [Read more...] about From the Halls of LAX…

Sozialgericht Bremen is some kind of governmental entity in Germany. Bjoern Harste is a German blogger who owns a supermarket and runs a blog called Shopblogger about shopping...or something, I don't read German. Anyway, the clueless folks at Sozialgericht Bremen have discovered that when you search for Sozialgericht Bremen at Google, one of Harste's posts appears in the top … [Read more...] about Sozialgericht Bremen

Radley Balko points to this newsday article about a couple of the guys the government has been protecting us from. … [Read more...] about Meet Some Folks From Guantanamo

From Yahoo's New Orleans Weather page: Tonight: Bands of heavy rain containing strong gusty winds at times. Low around 80F. NE winds at 25 to 40 mph, increasing to 70 to 90 mph. Rainfall over two inches. Winds could occasionally gust over 100 mph. Tomorrow: Bands of heavy rain containing strong gusty winds at times. High around 85F. Winds NNE at 70 to 90 mph. Rainfall over … [Read more...] about New Orleans Weather

I've just been reading through the last few days of snail mail. I get lots of stuff purporting to be "great opportunities" or "exciting promotions." Here's one telling me how to "get the most" out of something. There are lots of exclamation points. The thing is, all these letters ultimately want me to pay them money. Some of the things being offered might be interesting, … [Read more...] about Exciting Mail