Brian Gongol
Graphic of the day: Honey
Water crisis in the Southwest
"Sometimes, good advice does not make good law."
South Dakota governor deserves credit for knowing the difference between the two
Colorado (fortunately) kills stupid bill to ruin Electoral College
Sen. Hagel launches Senate/Presidential campaign website
(Video starts on homepage) As announced yesterday, the campaign website doesn't specify whether it's for Senate re-election or a Presidential campaign.
Mall of America wants a $234 million government subsidy
Ridiculous. Just ridiculous. Too many economic-development incentives are out of control.
South Carolina might let inmates trade kidneys for jail time
While competent adults should have the right to sell their kidneys, here South Carolina is considering a very inefficient trade-off: Presumably, the inmates are there for having committed crimes either against individuals or society. Unless the victims themselves were in need of kidneys, then the inmate's "generosity" is turned over to someone entirely unrelated to the crime. At least when convicts have to clean up highway ditches, the benefit accrues to the public at large.
The worst airport greeters anywhere
Community-college dropout busted for claiming to be a professor
Not at all a surprise that the masquerade took place on Wikipedia. Anything people find there ought to be backed up by a reliable, named source.
ABC says the defector who passed bad Iraqi weapons info is in Germany
Colin Powell is angry that no one told him the guy's intel was suspicious. Meanwhile, the Attorney General is defending himself against charges that a bunch of US attorneys were fired for political reasons, which would be a serious breach of ethics if true.
TSA to start randomly screening airport employees
Sending a bunch of new officers to Florida and Puerto Rico
Viacom sues YouTube over stolen videos
Claims 1.5 billion viewings of unauthorized clips are worth more than $1 billion in damages
PC Magazine's top ten security threats
Agreed that social engineering is the #1 threat. People need to know how to recognize social-engineering attacks, because no matter how secure browsers get, there will be attacks that pass them by (and spam filters, and phishing filters, and adware blockers).
