Oh, you have got to be kidding me:
A U.S. military brigade is constructing a 3-mile-long concrete wall to cut off one of the capital’s most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization of Iraq’s most populous and violent city.
U.S. commanders in northern Baghdad said [...]
Posted by Chris in Iraq, Security Theater, You have got to be kidding on April 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
Getting a new passport in 2007? I will be, and the first thing I’ll do after getting it is “sit on it wrong”. With a hammer. Why? Because the old-fashioned printed-on-paper part of it is just as useful as a 2006 passport, which people will need to be able to deal with until 2016 at [...]
Posted by Chris in Government, Security Theater, Technology on December 29th, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Here’s a ponderable: was a man at JFK actually required to remove his t-shirt because it had a peace protest slogan in arabic? If so, what does that say about the (police) state of our airports?
Posted by Chris in Iraq, Security Theater, Travel on August 31st, 2006 | 2 Comments »
