Have Gun Will Travel Right Past the Clueless TSA

TSA screeners at Houston's airport were apparently too busy checking out the neighborhood junk to notice a loaded .40 caliber handgun a guy inadvertently carried onto his flight. Officials said that after the incident screeners got "remedial instruction" - presumably, as in: "This is a gun." Recent tests show screeners miss most of this stuff. Are we feeling safe yet?

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Isolation As Torture

With alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning's health said to be declining in Quantico, Glenn Greenwald takes an in-depth look at the inhumane conditions of his prolonged solitary confinement, and the legal and moral issues surrounding it. Here.

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Pack Many Sweaters! The War On Wikileaks Has Moved to Antarctica!

Nervous national security types are so worried about national security and all that they've sent an "urgent" memo to the handful of Americans, mostly scientists, in the U.S. Antarctic Program ordering them not to read any of that squirrely Wikileaks stuff that's all over the Internet. Um, okay. Penguins exempt. Hey. Maybe they should all move there for a while, just to be sure. From Big Dead Place.

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