Another interesting post over at GreaterGreaterWashington – an explanation of Arlington’s street naming methodology.
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This post links to the TSA’s screening point operations manual. Seems that someone at TSA had the bright idea to post it in a rather weakly redacted manner. We’ll skip over the fact that the entire document itself seems to be marked SSI (that is, Sensitive Security Information – not to be disclosed), and shouldn’t have been posted at all – redacted or otherwise. We’ll go straight to noting that it was redacted using the same pointless method that has been derided since . . . the late 90s? Which means, of course, that we all get to see which passports send you straight to secondary screening, which putative bans aren’t enforced, etc.  In the end, it’s a lot of terribly unsurprising stuff, but the point is that the super duper triple probation secrets that the TSA has be working so hard to keep obscure are all, well, kinda stupid. I think we’d all be better off knowing and understanding these guidelines in the first place.
I wasn’t born there, but Hawaii was where we lived when I first started sorting out the concept of the globe. I have to admit, it didn’t make a lot of sense when I first conceived that WWII (which was everywhere at the time, in Hawaii – from the rusted anti-aircraft guns on the beach to a giant cross marking Kole Kole Pass) was in large part about killing Japanese people. Because, umm, weren’t the grandparents of my friends at school or the older people on the beach Japanese, too? And now, decades later? Better understood, but still the same reaction of horror, on a personal level.  But marking December 7th was always an important yearly event, and I’ll always note December 7th, 7:51am.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4aoSUL5G18[/youtube]
And for the record, I believe that Blazing Saddles is the pinnacle of comedy. I thought that when I was 10, and I’m certain of it now.
Dig this – I’m sure you haven’t heard it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqWLwZIncec[/youtube]
Didn’t know Dead Prez had done this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAhSJt_8x8[/youtube]
And this? A household favorite:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9jT2eM6KQ[/youtube]
There’s no particular point to me posting a link to this story, other than me thinking that it’s fantastic. LBJ, in Pakistan, making friends with a dude on the side of the road. Seriously, click it.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, but this is an honest to god Washington Post correction:
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number.
Really.
Update: I think I might have found the original article, and if so, it means that WaPo – institutionally – is the joke. And not the author. Will post more as I find it.
Hey, do you beat the shit out your girlfriend, and then drag her through the lobby of your apartment building? Cool. Then you, too, can vote to protect the sanctity of marriage in NY.
(And also, you pathetic Democrats? You better not lift a finger to reelect him.)