About time someone said it

“There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” wrote Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the United States District Court in Detroit in banning the ilegal wiretapping ordered by the Bush administration. We're making slow progress, and we'll have to see what the court of appeals says, but at least judge Taylor's ruling brings back some hope that they system might work after all.

Facial Profiling?

These fools can never get it right. Now they decided to stop people at airports based on facial expressions that might indicate anger, fear, or hatred. Well, I couldn't stop laughing when I read the results of one of their first attempts at this brilliant new technique:

"The technique has already produced at least one lawsuit, filed in Boston. The state police at Logan Airport there happened to pick out, based on behavior observations, the national coordinator of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Campaign Against Racial Profiling." (NYT.)

HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA....

I hope the ACLU teaches them a lesson.