Really? Yahoo?

I can't write about the big news today, so instead I'll nip at the small stuff from Yahoo! News:

The head of the Theatre Securite Americain TSA prays to vishnu that you please oh for the love of god please don't [deleted] up his life by refusing a full-body scan when you go home for Thanksgiving. I found high comedy in this bit:

Ricky D. McCoy, a TSA screener and president of a union local in Illinois and Wisconsin, said the atmosphere has changed in the past two weeks for officers in his region. Since word of the pat-downs hit the headlines, officers have been punched, pushed or shoved six times after they explained what would be happening, McCoy said. "We have major problems because basically TSA never educated the public on what was going on," he said. "Our agency pretty much just threw the new search techniques out there."

The problem is not that you don't want your little children strip-searched, it's that you didn't know it was coming. The aftermath of this Thanksgiving flying season will be . . . interesting. I hope we at least get a couple of TSA firings, a few lawsuits, and a good Congressional Oversight Hearing out of it.

Apparently the only person who wants to see the law carried out in Alaska is the guy who (barely, maybe) lost an election. Everyone else is apparently happy to ignore misspelled and fraudulent write-in ballots for the apparent winner. At least they did manage to find a judge who would stay the contested results, unlike what happened with the clown from Illinois a while back.

The next bugbear you can't do anything about but we'll be happy to take your money to try and affect: methane from the permafrost! It's going to kill us all! Surrender your national sovereignty and your luxurious lifestyle before it's too late!