While looking at TV about the 9-11 attacks, it again came to mind how foolish some of our federal government agencies were, and probably still are.  It was known back in the 1990’s that destruction of the World Trade Center was an obsession of Islamic terrorists.  On February 26, 1993, a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the Trade Center.  The blast...

An alarm went off when I learned that Michael Chertoff was the man pushing the inane full-body-scan machines on our government, in response to a Nigerian man boarding a plane in Amsterdam on December 25, 2009, and allegedly trying to blow it up with explosives hidden in his underwear.  (Who writes this stuff?). I was surprised to find that this was such old news. Chertoff...

We’re living in some nasty times.  Conservatives accuse liberals of empathy, as though it’s a bad thing.  That’s already one of those You-can’t-make-this-shit-up things.  We hear some sane news commentators and saner comics attacking Glenn Beck’s outrage-du-jour.  Everyone to the left of Genghis Kahn has noticed that Faux News has moved beyond car-crash journalism...