Another sobering chart to let you know that we keep throwing good money after bad in our current system with crappy outcomes (except for insurance execs) should be giving us the imperative to fix our system.
“You have to actually look for the things that are dangerous, and not just scan everybody. This calls for a total change in approach to the transportation security issue.”
– Rafi Sela, a security consultant at Ben Gurion International Airport
According to the Israelis, who – as you may know – have some experience in dealing with terrorists, relying on privacy-invading scanning machines won’t keep us safer. Neither will patty down every brown-skinned male who just *might* be Muslim.
Eye contact, checking the behavior of folks in your airport, and basically NOT TAKING THE LAZY WAY OUT are the keys to defeating terrorist acts in most public venues.
But no, we’ve got to depend on gadgets instead of skill. I swear, I work in technology and realize that the Mark One Eyeball and the brain behind it is still capable of being better than the best sniffer, camera, or X-Ray nudie picture machine we can build.
Well, a wild morning here in Vegas as some cranky SOB decided to light his house on fire and go shoot up the federal courthouse because his Social Security check was cut. In 2008.
More on the whole damned sad affair here.
Some view on the decade gone by. You know, for those of who convinced the decade just ended.
Sigh.
Some historical looking back on how China have taken the initiative in a variety of areas over the US specifically and the West in general.
A lot of food for thought.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.
More on this cretin violating his marriage vows (for the second time) and why the most recent ex-Mrs. Rove wanted out quickly.
Thanks to Ned for linking me to this chart based on info from Nate Silver’s data I linked to a bit ago.
This is pretty good for a laugh. Check it out.
Thankfully I don’t clearly hit any of these categories.
A bit old, but sadly still relevant.
And, wow, yeah, this is pretty much how they sounded.
A bit old but I forgot to chase down this video awhile back. I like catching Sunday Morning, it’s something Grandpa turned me onto back when Charles Kuralt hosted it. Sue me, I’m was raised in farm country.