Well now, this is certainly inconvenient.

Panic as policy?

Home Depot trumps national security. And frequent flyers deserve all the inconvenience we can dish so as to avoid any possible hurt feeeeelings. Or common sense.

The third contender?

And what day would be complete without an update on Amin's trail of carnage? UPDATE: Read. This. Also. What. The. Hell. Is. Wrong. With. The. British. Don't get me wrong -- I love them in so many ways. But the feckless wrong-headed anti-semitism of Herbert Samuel and his staff leading to the elevation of Amin will eventually be recognized by historians as one of the truly great mistakes. This is just absolutely devastating.

Unfortunately, the good old days of de-Nazification are seen through rose colored glasses regarding how systematic we and the allies were. The only ones who got the concept right were the Soviets -- but then gave us the great gift of East Germany due to their own ruinous ideology.