Please do not change your password

(meme) Finally some economic sanity on the computer security front.

Jeremy Clarkson makes a lot of sense

In UK's Times. A quote:

I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal human behaviour can be preserved. It’s simple. We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt when a man with a beard boards a plane with an exploding dog.

Quote of the day

"You really think this kid can‘t be convicted? You really think we don‘t have enough evidence beyond the—beyond the, I don‘t know, 300 or so eyewitnesses who were on the plane? The fact that we have the weapon that he tried to use? The fact that he confessed? You think that‘s not enough to get this kid convicted? You have that little faith in our criminal justice system? That little faith in the rule of law? You don‘t believe that a supermax federal American prison is capable of holding this kid?

You think it might be cool, instead, to martyr this kid as some impressive soldier, instead of some idiot confused rich kid who couldn‘t even handle blowing up his own junk with a bomb that was secreted in his own underpants? We‘re supposed to take national security advice from you guys? Really?" —Rachel Maddow

(via the Dish)

Link blag

David Frum wonders if conservatives can govern.

Dish reader draws a lesson from Fort Hood. Another differs. American Muslim reaction here.

Library Grape: Catholic diocese channels Christ's love, threatens to stop feeding the poor if gays marry.

TMV: Can we please just tax the churches already?

Politico: The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan offers coverage for "a fundamental assault on innocent human life".

TPM has a Lou Dobbs slideshow retrospective. Krugman writes: "Until now it really has seemed as if there was nothing, nothing at all, that someone on the right could say and do that would make them unacceptable in polite company. Now it at least seems that there is a line somewhere."

Fallows: more than a hundred TSA agents have gone undercover...cleverly disguised as TSA agents! (he follows up)

Police arrest twenty-five dangerous deviants in Chicago.

Headline to appreciate: "Irish priest kidnapped in Philippines released by MILF"

Unlike every other document on the Web, this page is in final form and completely finished. *grin*

Math is beautiful.

This guy can juggle. So can this one.

Soldiers and their dogs.

Not exactly Playboy quality

TSA's new machines — which they've begun using on regular passengers — can see you naked:



I do declare, that's putting the theater in security theater...

(If you missed Jeffrey Goldberg's November 2008 piece on the uselessness of airport security, you should read it)