So the security at airports is completely useless. As proof, I submit the following: they made this space's cute one-year-old boy take his shoes off, as if a murderous parent wouldn't just leave the kid at home and ingest the explosives himself, or diaper the kid in them or something. In retaliation for this stupidity, he took the only sensible (to him) action, and became apoplectic, screaming inconsolably for most of the flight home. Alas. Bonus reading: One pilot gets annoyed that the TSA's is engaged in this kind of stupid security theatre, and a nicely articulated definition of security theatre).
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Paul Krugman spends an hour explaining the housing crisis, and why it should be scary, before an audience of non-idiots.
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